Trita Parsi
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| Born |
21 July 1974 Ahvaz, Iran |
| Residence | United States |
| Alma mater |
Johns Hopkins University Uppsala University |
| Occupation | Author, Analyst |
| Organization | National Iranian American Council |
| Spouse(s) | Amina Semlali |
| Website | http://www.tritaparsi.com |
Trita Parsi (Persian: تریتا پارسی, born 21 July 1974) is the founder and current president of the National Iranian American Council, author of Treacherous Alliance and A Single Roll of the Dice. He regularly authors articles in print, and appears on TV to commentate on foreign policy.
Born in Iran, Parsi moved with his family to Sweden at the age of four in order to escape the political repression in Iran. His father was an outspoken academic who was jailed under the reign of the Shah and later under Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Republic. Parsi earned a master's degree in International Relations at Uppsala University and a second master's degree in Economics at . As an adult, Parsi moved to the United States and studied foreign policy at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies where he received his Ph.D. in International Relations under Francis Fukuyama.
Early in his career Parsi worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, where he served in the Security Council, handling the affairs of Afghanistan, Iraq, Tajikistan, and Western Sahara, and on the General Assembly's Third Committee, addressing human rights in Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq.
He has served as an adjunct professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS, an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute and as a Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.
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