Gholam Reza Afkhami

Who is Gholam Reza Afkhami?

Gholam Reza Afkhami is senior scholar and director of Social Science Research and International Studies at the Foundation for Iranian Studies, a Washington based research institution dedicated to the study of Iranian history, culture, economy and politics,created with the financial support from the twin sister of the Shah of Iran, Princess Ashraf Pahlavi. He is also Father of the well known basketball player Ehsan Afkhami. He was formerly a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution on Revolution, War and Peace at Stanford, where he studied issues of development in the Third World, lectured on conflict and concord in the US relations with the countries of the Middle East, and prepared a text on the Iranian Revolution. Before the revolution of 1979, he was secretary general of Iran's National Committee for World Literacy Program,Headed by Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and deputy minister of interior, 1974–1975. Between 1967 and 1979 he was professor of politics and until 1974 associate dean of the College of Economics and Political Science at the National University of Iran.