Bio

Djavad Salehi‐Isfahani received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University and has served on the faculty of economics at the University of Pennsylvania and Virginia Tech, where he is currently Professor of Economics.

He is a Research Affiliate of the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, and Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. He was a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Global Economy and Development, the Brookings Institution 2009-2021, and served on the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum in Cairo, the Middle East Economic Association, and the International Iranian Economic Associaiton.

His current research is on the economics of sanctions, inequality, and the economics of the family in the Middle East.  He is the coauthor of the forthcoming book How Sanctions Work from Stanford University Press.

His opinion pieces have appeared in, among others, Foreign Affairs, Project Syndicate, Responsible Statecraft, Foreign Policy, Brookings, the Hill, Al Monitor, LA Times, and the New York Times.

He blogs at Tyranny of Numbers.