Dr. Haleh Esfandiari is a Distinguished Public Policy Fellow and the former and founding Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has written numerous books and articles on Iranian politics, gender dynamics, nuclear policies, and more, and she has won several awards for her work. Dr. Esfandiari formerly held senior positions in women’s and cultural organizations in her native Iran, and she is now a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of the Peace Research Endowment and the board of advisors for the Project on Middle East Democracy.
