Anissa Ozbek

Anissa Ozbek is a security studies researcher and regional studies education administrator specializing in Iran. She holds a Masters of Arts in Middle East Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, where she was also a U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow for Persian. Her research areas include international relations of the Middle East, Iran’s nuclear program, and regional security. An inaugural N.E.W. Policy Fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAISRethinking Iran Initiativeand a member of the third cohort of thePloughshares Nuclear Futures Fellowship, shehas previously held research positions at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Wilson Center. Anissa has presented her findings on Iran, nuclear security, and the region at international forums such as the British Society for Middle East Studies and her work has been published with the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy,The National Interest, andPRISME. Her research is informed by direct engagement with primary sources across five languages including Russian, Persian, and Mandarin.