Nader Mousavizadeh

Nader Mousavizadeh is a businessman, author, geo-political advisor and commentator,^[1] and former senior United Nations official who was an advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan from 1997 to 2003.^[2] 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.^[3] Mousavizadeh was born to a Danish mother and Iranian father, and grew up in Denmark.^[4] 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.^[4][2]

Before becoming the special assistant to Kofi Annan in 1997, he was a UN political officer in Bosnia-Herzegovina.^[2]

Prior to founding Macro Advisory Partners in 2013, of which he is the CEO,^[5] Mousavizadeh was a banker at Goldman Sachs and was CEO of Oxford Analytica.^[6]

Mousavizadeh is the co-author, with Kofi Annan, of the latter's 2012 memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace,^[7][8] 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.^[9][10][11] 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.^[12][2]

Since 2019, Mousavizadeh is a member of the Global Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.^[13] He sits on the Trilateral Commission.^[14]