Majid Rafizadeh

Who is Majid Rafizadeh?

Majid Rafizadeh, is an American political scientist, scholar at Harvard University, policy analyst, expert and commentator on US foreign policy and Middle East. He is originally from the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria. Rafizadeh is president of the International American Council on the Middle East and serves on the board of the Harvard International Review at Harvard University. He is journalist, human rights activist, a senior fellow at Nonviolence International and a member of the Gulf 2000 Middle East Project of the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.

Frequently called upon to brief U.S., EU, Asian officials, and parliaments about US foreign policy and Middle Eastern affairs, Rafizadeh has taught and lectured at several universities including Harvard, Oxford, University of California Santa Barbara, has been the recipient of numerous academic and non-academic awards, scholarships and fellowships including Fulbright teaching scholarship, and regularly speaks at events including Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, State Department's Leaders for Democracy Fellows, Milton Seminar for Diplomacy, and foreign affairs conferences.