About the author
Sanam Vakil is an associate fellow in the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa Programme where she leads the Iran Forum project, which focuses on future trends in Iran’s domestic and foreign policy. She follows wider Middle East issues as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University associated with the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order. She is also the James Anderson professorial lecturer in the Middle East Studies department at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS Europe) in Bologna, Italy. She received her BA in political science and history from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her MA/PhD in international relations and international economics from Johns Hopkins University.