Ali Vaez
Crisis Group's deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa; Iran analyst.
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- Ali Vaez is an Iran analyst and Crisis Group's deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa.
- As Crisis Group's Iran Project Director he was closely involved in the 2015 nuclear negotiations.
- Before that he was a senior political affairs officer in the UN Department of Political and Peace-building Affairs and Iran Project Director at the Federation of American Scientists.
- He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Key facts
- Current role
- Deputy Program Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group1
- Earlier
- Crisis Group's Iran Project Director, closely involved in the 2015 nuclear negotiations; senior political affairs officer, UN Department of Political and Peace-building Affairs; Iran Project Director, Federation of American Scientists1
- Teaching
- Adjunct professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; former fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins SAIS1
- Education
- PhD, University of Geneva; master's degree, Johns Hopkins SAIS; post-doctoral fellow at Harvard from 2008 to 20101
- Book
- Co-author of How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare1
- Languages
- Persian, French, English1
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