Vali Nasr is the Majid Khadduri professor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studes (SAIS), and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. He previously served as SAIS dean and as senior adviser to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Nasr 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: History and the Quest for Liberty”. He has also written articles and commentary for The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He is the recipient of a Carnegie Scholar Award and fellowships from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He was selected as the Henry Alfred Kissinger resident scholar at the Library of Congress for 2024-25.