Mohammad Javad Zarif

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was professor of human rights, international law and multilateral diplomacy at the University of Tehran. He served as Vice President for international affairs at the Islamic Azad University. He has served on the board of editors of a number of scholarly journals, including the Iranian Journal of International Affairs and Iranian Foreign Policy. He served as Deputy Minister for Legal and International Affairs (1992-2002) and as Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (2002-2007). He holds a PhD from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, USA.