Bahman Baktiari

Salt Lake City, Utah United States

Executive Director

Government / Military

Bahman Baktiari serves as Executive Director of the International Foundation for Civil Society: The Middle East & North Africa (MENA). In this capacity, Mr. Baktiari supervises all aspects of the growing not-for-profit organization. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, MENA concentrates its work on the internal and external factors involved within the massive social, political, and economic shifts currently taking place in North Africa and the Middle East. Bahman Baktiari has occupied this position since 2011. Concurrently, he also participates as a member in the Working Group on Iran through The United States Institute for Peace (USIP). Prior to assuming his present post with MENA