Esfandyar Batmanghelidj is the Founder of Bourse & Bazaar, a think tank focused on issues of economic diplomacy and development in the Middle East and Central Asia, and particularly Iran. His scholarship on Iran’s political economy, public health, and social history has been published in peer-review journals and in the Encyclopedia Iranica. He is also a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. Esfandyar graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University where he studied international political economy.