Vali Nasr Biography

Featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, mentioned by Senator John Kerry on the Senate floor, and portrayed as a national asset by Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass One of America's leading experts on globalization, distant relations, the Middle East, and the Islamic world is Vali Nasr. He is well-known worldwide and has influenced fundamental policy decisions on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as presidents, prime ministers, and corporate executives. From 2009 to 2011, Nasr served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He now holds the positions of Professor of International Politics at Tufts University's renowned Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Senior Advisor at Kissinger Associates, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, and Reporter for Bloomberg View. A Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he recently stood in for a temporary absence. As well as numerous articles in academic journals and reference books, Nasr is the author of The Rise of Islamic Capitalism: Why the New Muslim Middle Class is Key to Defeating Extremism, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, and Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty. His writings have been translated into French and Arabic Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Chinese, Indonesian, German, Hebrew, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has received a number of awards and was a Carnegie Scholar in 2006.

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