David Menashri is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University (TAU), founding director of its Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University (TAU). A leading scholar of modern Iranian history, he has authored and edited more than 10 books and published numerous articles on Iran and the Middle East. He was chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Dean for Special Programs and the first Incumbent of the Nazarian Chair for Iranian Studies, all at TAU. Following his 2011 retirement from TAU, he served as President of the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, Israel. In 2016 and 2017 he was Visiting Israel Institute Professor at UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. He has been a visiting Fulbright scholar at Princeton and Cornell Universities. Among others, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Yale, Oxford, Melbourne and Monash Universities (Australia), the universities of Munich and Mainz (Germany) and Waseda (Japan). In the late 1970s, Menashri spent two years conducting research and field studies in Iranian universities on the eve of the Islamic Revolution, with a grant from the Ford Foundation.
Expertise: Iran Nuclear Issue, Middle East non-proliferation and security