Vali Nasr is the Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. Between 2012 and 2019 he served as the Dean of the School, and between 2009 and 2011 as Senior Advisor to U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. He is the author of several books including, Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History; How Sanctions Work; The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat; The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future; Democracy in Iran; as well as articles in scholarly journals, and commentary in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He is the recipient of Carnegie Scholar Award, and the Frank Guggenheim, and MacArthur Foundation research fellowships. Nasr has served on the Board of Trustees of Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Advisory Boards of Blovatnik School of Government, Oxford University; Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore; and Board of International Advisors of American University of Beirut. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Action Council. He was selected as Kissinger Scholar at Library of Congress for 2024-25 and Carnegie Scholar for 2006.