Dr. Alidad Mafinezam is the Policy Advisor at the American Iranian Council. He is an internationally recognized policy advisor, author and convener. Mafinezam is the founder of the West Asia Council, a non-profit organization that promotes knowledge exchange, international cooperation, trade, and investment between North America and West Asian countries such as Turkey, Arab countries and Iran. The Council’s main aim is to build deep links between these two critical regions of the world by raising their level of interaction, understanding, and cooperation in key arenas.

A multidisciplinary writer/editor on public policy, and a leading convener and organizer with a quarter-century of experience in bringing divergent people, communities, and cultures together, connecting the worlds of ideas and practice. Bridge builder.

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