Nader Mousavizadeh

Nader Mousavizadeh is a businessman, geo-political advisor and commentator, and former 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.