Ali Fathollah-Nejad is founder & director of the Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG) and lecturer at the International Security, Hertie School – The University of Governance in Berlin. He is also a fellow at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), University of Bonn. He is author of the following: Iran – Wie der Westen seine Werte und Interessen verrät [in German] (Jan. 2025),  The Islamic Republic in Existential Crisis: The Need for a Paradigm Shift in the EU’s Iran Policy (2023, EUISS Chaillot Paper), the much-acclaimed Iran in an Emerging New World Order: From Ahmadinejad to Rouhani (2021), and The Islamic Republic of Iran Four Decades On: The 2017/18 Protests Amid a Triple Crisis (2020, Brookings). He was a 2022 McCloy Fellow on Global Trends at the American Council on Germany (ACG). He is a former Iran expert at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Brookings Institution in Doha (BDC) and German Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, Dep. of Development Studies, SOAS (U of London) and a Post-Doc from the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center. He can be found here: Website • Instagram • X • Facebook • LinkedIn