Hossein Mousavian spent more than two decades serving various positions within the Iranian government, including spokesman for the Iranian Nuclear Team, foreign policy adviser to the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and ambassador to Germany. During his tenure, Mousavian helped secure the release of hostages held by the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, worked with Western nations to establish new government in Afghanistan following the overthrow of the Taliban, and was a key negotiator in the 2003 agreement for Tehran to suspend the enrichment of uranium at its nuclear sites.

Currently, Mousavian is a visiting research scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and its Program on Science and Global Security. He is the author of several publications, including Challenges of Iran-West Relations, Additional Protocol and Islamic Republic’s Strategy and Human Rights: Trends and Viewpoints. Before serving in the Iranian government, he was editor in chief of the English-language international newspaper Tehran Times.

Mousavian earned a doctorate in international relations from the University of Kent in the U.K.; his postdoctoral studies, on the future of relations between the U.S. and the Middle East through 2020, took place at Durham University. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Tehran and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Sacramento. . . . short bio

Hossein Mousavian spent more than two decades serving various positions within the Iranian government, including spokesman for the Iranian Nuclear Team, foreign policy adviser to the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and ambassador to Germany. During his tenure, Mousavian helped secure the release of hostages held by the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, worked with Western nations to establish new government in Afghanistan following the overthrow of the Taliban, and was a key negotiator in the 2003 agreement for Tehran to suspend the enrichment of uranium at its nuclear sites . . . full bio