Alireza Salehi Nejad

Alireza Salehi Nejad is an Iranian social scientist, multidisciplinary researcher and political analyst, who is currently affiliated with the Faculty of World Studies at University of Tehran. He is also the founder and the former CEO of Titan Incorporated. In addition, Alireza currently serves on a number of boards, including as the Executive Director of the International Association of Communication in Healthcare, the Ethics Committee of Linguistic Society of America, the Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace & Culture, and Advisory Council of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. Alireza has collaborated with numerous academic publishers – notably Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Center of Science & Education, SAGE Publications – and scholarly journals as an editorial board member and reviewer. He currently edits for 15 international academic journals and has served on the scientific committee of over 50 conferences thus far. Alireza is an alumnus of Asia Pacific University and Staffordshire University Business School, graduated summa cum laude from Shahid Chamran University with a degree in Translation Studies, and pursued his postgraduate studies in British Studies and American Studies at University of Tehran. Although Alireza’s focus is on social sciences, his research and studies include a broad range of topics in various disciplines. In addition to his contribution to the ‘culture of poverty’ and the ‘cycle of poverty’, Alireza’s research expertise is including sociolinguistics, interpersonal communication, political discourse, international relations, political behavior and medical sociology. His latest work has been published in Science, International Affairs, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, and Spinal Cord.