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Vali Nasr
Author, academic, analyst
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 the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Nasr has advised world leaders and major corporations, and is the author of several books including “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History,” “How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare,” “The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat,” “The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam will Shape the Future” and “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 the Carnegie Scholar Award as well as Frank Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation research fellowships. Nasr has served on the board of trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the advisory boards of Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, and the 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 the Henry Alfred Kissinger Resident Scholar at the Library of Congress for 2024-25.
