Valentine M. Moghadam is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, and former (and forthcoming) director of the International Affairs Program at Northeastern University, Boston, which she joined in January 2012. Previously she directed women’s studies programs at Purdue University and Illinois State University, and she was a section chief at UNESCO and a senior researcher at UNU/WIDER. Born in Iran, Prof. Moghadam is the author of many publications on politics, gender, and political economy of Middle East and North African countries, the first being Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East and North Africa (1993, 2003, 2013). More recently, she co-authored, with Shamiran Mako, After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa (Cambridge, 2021), and with Sahar Shakiba and Omid Ghaderzadeh, “Women in Iranian Kurdistan: Patriarchy and the Quest for Empowerment” (Gender & Society, vol. 35, no. 4, Aug. 2021: 616-642). An article, “Women, Peace, and Security in the Middle East: An Agenda of Empty Promises?” appeared in Journal of Peace and War Studies (5^th ed., October 2023: 36-59), journal-peace-war-studies-5th-edition (norwich.edu). Her chapter, “Varieties of Feminism in the Middle East and North Africa”, the result of research taken while holding a Chair at the Library of Congress Kluge Center (Fall 2021), was published in Shahram Akbarzadeh (ed.), Edward Elgar Handbook of Middle East Politics (2023). Bloomsbury Academic will publish Prof. Moghadam’s gendered institutional study of UNESCO in 2027.