Associate Director

Vali Nasr is Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Associate Director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University. He is a specialist on political Islam and has worked extensively on political and social developments in the Muslim world with a focus on the relation of religion to politics, violence, and democratization. In 2006, he was named a Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He has also been the recipient of grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Nasr received his B.A. from Tufts University in international relations summa cum laude and was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa in 1983. He earned his MALD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in international economics and Middle East studies in 1984 and his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology in 1991. His publications include The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (2006); Democracy in Iran (2006); and The Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (2001).

Listen to Nasr speak on the subject of "The Sunni-Shia Divide on the Future of Islam" on the radio program Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett. Download the broadcast >

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Associate Director of Business Programs

Ibrahim Warde is Adjunct Professor of International Business at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Associate Director of Business Programs at the Fares Center. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007, in relation to his research on financial networks and practices in the Islamic world. He is also a course director for Euromoney Institutional Investor, London and a consultant specializing in global finance. He has taught at the University of California (Berkeley, Davis, and Santa Cruz), as well as at Saint Mary’s College, California.

Warde completed his B.A. at Université Saint Joseph in Beirut, Lebanon, his business degree from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), France, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Warde’s books include The Price of Fear: The Truth Behind the Financial War on Terror (2007), Islamic Finance in the Global Economy (2000), Le modèle anglo-saxon en question (1997), and Mythologies américaines (1996). Forthcoming books include Islam and Economics and Guerres d’Irak. He is a contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique, an author of monographs on banking regulation and international finance, and an author of policy papers on global technological change published by the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE).