Vali Nasr

Vali Nasr "is Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is also an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. His areas of focus for research and teaching include Comparative Politics, International Political Economy, South Asia, Iran, the Middle East, and Political Islam. His work has been translated into Arabic, Indonesian, Turkish, Persian, Chinese, and Urdu. Dr. Nasr has been the recipient of grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. Dr. Nasr earned his degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1991), the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (MALD, 1984), and Tufts University (B.A., 1983)."


 * Leadership Group, U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project
 * Advisory Board, Iranian American Scholarship Fund

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