Karim Sadjadpour
Karim Sadjadpour is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment. He joined Carnegie after four years as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Washington and Tehran, where he conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials, and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.
He is a regular contributor to BBC TV and radio, CNN, National Public Radio, PBS NewsHour, and Al-Jazeera, and has appeared on the Today Show, Charlie Rose, Fox News Sunday, and the Colbert Report, among others. He contributes regularly to publications such as the Economist, Washington Post, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Policy.
Frequently called upon to brief U.S., EU, and Asian officials about Middle Eastern affairs, he regularly testifies before Congress, has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities, and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards, including a Fulbright scholarship.
In 2007 Sadjadpour was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is a board member of both the Banu Foundation, an organization dedicated to assisting grassroots organizations that are empowering women worldwide, as well as the Censorship Research Center, a non-profit organization that provides free anti-censorship education, outreach, and technologies to closed societies.
He has lived in Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Areas of Expertise
Iranian politics and society; Iran's nuclear program; Iranian foreign policy; Iran's role in Iraq; U.S. Foreign policy toward the Middle East; Democracy, economic development, and reform in the Middle East; Security in the Middle East; Comparative politics; Terrorism
Education
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies