Mehdi Sanaei

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Mehdi Sanaei
Mehdi Sanai and Putin 2014.jpeg
Sanai presenting his lettre de créance to Vladimir Putin, 16 January 2014
Ambassador of Iran to Russia
In office
16 January 2014 – 10 November 2019
PresidentHassan Rouhani
Preceded bySeyed Mahmoud-Reza Sajjadi
Succeeded byKazem Jalali
Personal details
BornMarch 25, 1968
Nahavand, Iran
RelativesAli Younesi (father-in-law)

Mehdi Sanaei (born March 25, 1968)[1] is an Iranian academic, politician, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation (2013–2019). Sanaei was lawmaker at Iran’s Islamic Parliament (Majlis) from 2008 to 2013. He is currently Senior Adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Adviser to the Rector of Tehran University for Russia and Eurasia.

He is the founder of Russian Studies Department in the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran. He is also the founder and CEO of the Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (a.k.a. IRAS) since 2004. IRAS is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental think tank and publisher based in Tehran whose mission is to analyze and promote the understanding of major issues and current affairs of Eurasia and South Caucasus.[2] He has written and translated several books, and several of his works have been published in Russian in Moscow. Sanai's last book is in Persian, Russia: Society, Politics and Government, and in Russian, Conversations about the Future That Does Not Yet exist. He also founded the cultural consultations of the Iranian embassies in Kazakhstan and Russia and between 1995 and 2003 he worked in these countries as a cultural counselor of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

He graduated in political science and international relation at University of Tehran and defended his doctoral dissertation at the Institute for Social and Political Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in addition to writing books and articles, he participated in scientific and international conferences in various countries, including Russia, China, France, Poland, Canada and the United States. Mehdi Sanai's executive reports also include the responsibility of the ECO Regional Institute for Culture.

Education[]

  • Candidate of Political Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2001, thesis topic: "Socio-political relations of Iran and Central Asia"
  • Master in International Relations from Tehran University (1995)
  • Bachelor of Political Science from Tehran University (1992)
  • Fluent in Arabic, English and Russian

University and academic activities[]

  • Advisor to the Rector of Tehran University for Russia and Eurasia since 2020
  • Receiving medal from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies for support and cooperation in expanding Iranian research in Russia (2019).
  • Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since May 2014).
  • Editor in chief and member of editorial board of the World Studies Quarterly, University of Tehran in 2011–2017.
  • Director of the Department of Russian Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran in 2007–2013.
  • Executive director and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Perspectives of Cultural Relations" in 2003–2006.
  • Laureate of the international prize "Book of the Year in the Islamic Republic of Iran" 2003 (in the foreign category)
  • Member of the Academic Council at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Tehran since 2000.
  • Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2014-2015; 2018-2019.
  • Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science of Moscow State University, 2015-2017.
  • Awarded Professor of Political Science at the Saint Petersburg State University since 2014.
  • Associate faculty member of the Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, 2003-2013.
  • Member of advisory board of the Journal «Russia in global affairs»[3]
  • Presenting articles in scientific and international conferences in France, Poland, China, Russia, USA, Canada and other countries

Executive and administrative activities[]

  • Senior Adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2019
  • Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation in 2013–2019
  • Member of the eighth and ninth convocations of the Islamic Consultative Council of Iran in 2008-2013.
  • Deputy Head of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy.
  • Head of the parliamentary friendship group with Russia and Ukraine.
  • Cultural Counselor at the Iranian Embassy in Russia 1999–2003
  • Cultural Counselor at the Iranian Embassy in Kazakhstan 1995–1996
  • Research & Education deputy to Islamic Culture and Relations Organization (2003–2005).
  • Head of the Institute of Culture of the Regional Organization for Economic Cooperation (2005–2006).
  • Director General of the IRAS Research Center (Study of Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus) since 2004.

Bibliography[]

Books in Persian[]

  • From This Approach (Collection of Speeches and Articles),Tahura Press,Tehran, 2015.
  • Historical Ties Between Iran and Central Asia, Supervised by Dr. Sanai, IRAS and ECO Cultural Institute,Tehran, 2014.
  • Iran’s Position in Central Asia Tehran, 1997.
  • Iran-Russia Relationships, IRAS Press, 2009.
  • Iran-Central Asia Relationships, IPIS, 2011.
  • Russia: Society, Politics and Government SAMT Press, 2016.
  • Souvenir of Transoxiana, Tehran, 1999.
  • With Nahavand: memories of Election 2007 [1386] IRAS Press, Tehran, 2010.

Books in Russian[]

  • Conversations about a future that does not yet exist, Veche Press, Moscow, 2020.
  • In the Greater Silk Road, Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2004.
  • Iran-Central Asia Political and Social Relations, Moravi Press, 2002.
  • Law and Politics in Islam: A Textbook, Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2004.
  • Perspectives of Iran-Central Asia Relations, Oriental Literature Press, Saint Petersburg, 2017.
  • Selected Works, Moscow University Press, Moscow, 2019.

Translation from English and Russian[]

  • Russia in search of identity, J. Billington, IRAS and Tehran University, Tehran, 2006.
  • Russian Foreign Policy: Self-Consciousness and National Interests, A. Zadokhin, Tehran, 2005.

References[]

  1. ^ "مهدی سنائی - دانشکده مطالعات جهان". دانشکده مطالعات جهان (in Persian). Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  2. ^ Behnegarsoft.com (2016-07-30). "IRAS - About IRAS". The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies. Retrieved 2018-09-17.
  3. ^ "Board of Advisors". Russia in Global Affairs. Retrieved 2021-07-31.

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