Dr. Arash Reisinezhad is an academic, researcher, and expert in international relations specializing in the geopolitics, connectivity, and political economy of the Middle East. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Former Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, he served also as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Tehran. Dr. Reisinezhad  is the author of the books “The Shah of Iran, the Iraqi Kurds, and the Lebanese Shia” and “Iran and the New Silk Road: From Road Geopolitics to Road Diplomacy”, as well as dozens of academic articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals. He is the Founder and CEO of ROAD Corporation Ltd, a strategic consulting and geopolitical risk analysis firm focused primarily on global infrastructure and trade corridors.