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Nader Mousavizadeh is a businessman, author, geo-political advisor and commentator, and former senior United Nations official who was an advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan from 1997 to 2003. According to Perry Anderson in the London Review of Books, Mousavizadeh was one of Annan's two key advisers in this period, alongside Edward Mortimer. Mousavizadeh was born to a Danish mother and Iranian father, and grew up in Denmark. He moved to the United States where he studied at Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then moved to the United Kingdom where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church College, University of Oxford.

Before becoming the special assistant to Kofi Annan in 1997, he was a UN political officer in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Prior to founding Macro Advisory Partners in 2013, of which he is the CEO, Mousavizadeh was a banker at Goldman Sachs and was CEO of Oxford Analytica.

Mousavizadeh is the co-author, with Kofi Annan, of the latter's 2012 memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, and is the editor of The Black Book Of Bosnia: The Consequences Of Appeasement which is a collection of commentary pieces published in The New Republic of which he was assistant editor at the time. He has also written for The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Times of London, and Foreign Policy, and was a foreign columnist for Reuters.

Since 2019, Mousavizadeh is a member of the Global Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute. He sits on the Trilateral Commission.

References

  1. "A new world disorder? | Financial Times". Financial Times. 4 September 2021. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  2. ^ "Nader Mousavizadeh". World Economic Forum. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  3. Anderson, Perry (2007-05-10). "Our Man". London Review of Books. Vol. 29, no. 9. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  4. ^ Frean, Alexandra (September 8, 2010). "Business big shot: Nader Mousavizadeh of Oxford Analytica". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  5. Smith, Alan; Fray, Keith; Russell, Alec (2023-08-21). "The à la carte world: our new geopolitical order". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  6. Frean, Alexandra (2023-08-22). "Business big shot: Nader Mousavizadeh of Oxford Analytica". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  7. "Interventions – A Life in War and Peace". Kofi Annan Foundation. 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  8. "Opinion | Kofi Annan's memoir, 'Interventions: A Life in War and Peace'". Washington Post. 2023-05-19. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  9. "New in paperback". The Washington Times. December 24, 1995. Retrieved 2023-08-23. Since August 1992, when the New Republic ran an editorial titled "Rescue Bosnia," the terrible fate of the former Yugoslavia has been the magazine's "obsession." So says Nader Mousavizadeh, TNR's assistant literary editor, in his preface to this collection of New Republic essays and editorials on Bosnia.
  10. Ignatieff, Michael (February 29, 1996). "The Missed Chance in Bosnia". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  11. Mousavizadeh, Nader, ed. (1996-01-05). The Black Book Of Bosnia: The Consequences Of Appeasement. New York, NY: Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-09835-4.
  12. Mousavizadeh, Nader (2015-09-25). "COLUMN-The weaponization of everything: Globalization's dark side". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
  13. "RELEASE: WRI Board Appoints Four New Members; Elevates David Blood to Co-Chair". 2019-03-08.
  14. "Nader Mousavizadeh". The Trilateral Commission. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
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