Professor Richard Tapper Lecturer, Reader and Professor in SOAS 1967-2004; fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey; published on pastoral nomadism, ethnic and tribal minorities and the state, material cultures, culinary cultures, anthropology of Islam, Iranian Cinema.
Professor Stephen Hopgood International politics of human rights; humanitarianism and international justice; and theories of the state
Professor Mehdi Zakerian Professor Mehdi Zakerian is based in the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Sciences & Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.
Professor Hisae Nakanishi Professor Nakanishi is currently a Professor of the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.
Professor Izzat Darwazeh Professor Izzat Darwazeh is an Advisory Committee member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS.
Professor William Lazonick William Lazonick is President of the Academic-Industry Research Network and Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has professorial affiliations with SOAS, University of London and Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris.
Dr Massoumeh Torfeh Massoumeh Torfeh, has been appointed UN Director of Strategic Communication and Spokesperson for Afghanistan and is a former senior producer in BBC World Service, specializes on the politics and media of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.