Trita Parsi — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Executive Vice President and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a foreign policy think tank co-founded in 2019.
Co-founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council.
Author of 'Treacherous Alliance' (2008), 'A Single Roll of the Dice' (2012), and 'Losing an Enemy' (2015).
'Treacherous Alliance' won the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for "Ideas Improving World Order" and the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award.
Holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University SAIS and two master's degrees.
Worked for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the United Nations, serving on the Security Council.

Biography

Trita Parsi is an Iranian-Swedish international relations writer and political analyst. He is the Executive Vice President and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a foreign policy think tank co-founded in 2019. Parsi also co-founded and previously served as president of the National Iranian American Council. He frequently writes articles and appears on television to comment on foreign policy.

Parsi is the author of several books focusing on U.S.-Iran relations.