Shireen Hunter

Education

London School of Economics.

Career

She also taught courses at Georgetown, George Mason University, and Washington College. She was Academic Fellow at Carnegie Corporation. From 1993-1997, Doctor Hunter was Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels and directed CEPS" Mediterranean Program.

She was Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and Research Fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.

Shireen Hunter was the first woman in the Iranian Foreign Service, from 1966-1978, serving abroad in London and Geneva. In addition to her books (below), she has published more than 500 monographs, chapters in books, and articles, and lectured widely in the United States at home and abroad at universities, research institutes, world affairs councils, the State Department, and military commands.

She also has extensive media experience. Doctor Hunter was educated at Teheran University (Bachelor and all-but-thesis for a doctorate in international law, 1965 & 1967), the London School of Economics (Master of Science in international relations, 1979), and the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva (Doctor of Philosophy in international relations, 1983).

She speaks English, French, Azerbaijani, and Persian.

Achievements

• She attained the rank of Counselor and served from time-to-time as Chargé d"Affaires of Iran’s United Nations Mission in Geneva.

Works

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  • Modernization, Democracy, and Islam: 1st (First) Edition

Politics

Central Asia Since Independence, Center for Strategic and International Studies /Westview Press, 1996. United States. and the Middle East: Emerging Economic and Political Trends (editor), Westview Press, July 1985.

Membership

A United States citizen, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.