Mansour Salsabili

Research Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom

Contact:
Telephone: 617-384-7473
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: mansour_salsabili@hks.harvard.edu

Experience

Mansour Salsabili is an Iranian scholar and former diplomat who participated in different aspects of the work of the United Nations (UN) in New York from UN reforms to the Non-Aligned Movement and also was a disarmament expert dealing with the Conference on Disarmament at the European office of the UN in Geneva. He followed disarmament and international security issues in cooperation with a range of research institutes such as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and also the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and taught a limited number of courses on International Relations and Foreign Policy of Iran at the University of Tarbiat Moddarress, in Tehran.

Prior to that, Salsabili contributed to the Hamshahri newspaper on international and particularly Middle East events. He was director of research and also a member of the editorial board of the Middle East History Research Institute (MEHRI) in Tehran. There, he had scores of contributions to three volumes of the encyclopaedic work of the Chronicle of the Middle East Contemporary History, the first volume of which—covering events of 1800–1850—was published in 1991.

He received his Ph.D. in Middle East politics from the University of Exeter in 1999.