ALI ANSARI

Ali M. Ansari is Professor of Iranian History & Founding Director of the Institute for Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews; Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute; Vice President of the British Institute for Persian Studies. He is the author of The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran (CUP, 212) and Crisis of Authority: Iran's 29 Presidential Election (Chatham House, 21). In 213 Ali Ansari was elected President of BIPS.