Meet our Executive Team

Our Executive Team

Behzad Hakim

Founder and President

Rahat Charyev

Vice President

Lalou Abdie

Chief of Staff

Masih Hanif

Editor-in-Chief

Saman Azari

Director of Policy

Tara Shivafard

Director of Programming

Gevorg Chibukhchyan

Treasurer

Rohan Jain

Director of Policy

Mat Read

Extremism Lead - Foreign Policy Analyst

Diana Romanyuk

Foreign Policy Analyst

Hayden Lai

Director of Marketing

Vasu Bhardwaj

Director of Public Affairs

Makenzie Tavares

Foreign Policy Analyst

Dylan Staecker

Foreign Policy Analyst

Marc-Antoine Rivero-Séguin

Foreign Policy Analyst

Board of Directors

Mattias Vanderley

Chairman

Behzad Hakim

Executive Director

Our executive team has worked at world-class organizations.

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