Professor Mohammad-Reza Djalili is a political analyst focusing on the Middle-East and Central Asia. He’s academic career started at the University of Teheran where he was appointed as Professor in 1970. A decade later he was teaching at the University Paris II and later he became an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

His books concentrate mainly of the subject of Iran – Histoire de l’Iran contemporain (La Découverte, 2010, co-authored by Thierry Kellner), L’Iran de A à Z (André Versaille éditeur, 2010), Géopolitique de l’Iran (Complexe, 2005), but he also published on the subject of Central Asia – Géopolitique de la nouvelle Asie centrale. De la fin de l’URSS à l’après-11 septembre (Puf, 2001-2003 co-authored by Thierry Kellner), and the region of Caucasus – Le Caucase postsoviétque : la transition dans le conflit (Bruylant, 1995).