Dr. Faramarz Tamanna is a Research Associate (since 2023) at the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and Visiting Professor (2025), Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Ottawa, and a Part-time Professor at the School of Conflict Studies and the School of Ethics and Public Affairs, Saint Paul University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at GSPIA (2024–2026).

His research examines security and conflict in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia; terrorism; defence; external intervention, statebuilding and political settlements; and the foreign policy and geoeconomics of regional order. 

Before joining CIPS, Dr. Tamanna was Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Afghanistan (2012–2023), and Director General of the Centre for Strategic Studies at Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2012–2018), where he led the senior team that drafted Afghanistan’s Foreign Policy. From 2013 to 2018 he also taught the Ministry of National Defence’s strategic course for senior intelligence and military officers.

He holds a PhD in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2014), and an MA in International Relations (2006) and a BA in Political Science (2001) from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. He has taught at universities in Afghanistan since 2008 and in Canada since 2024. 

He is the author of four books and the editor of a fifth: Afghanistan’s Foreign Policy: Dynamism, Scope, Actions (Amiri Publications, 2021); The Dilemma of Peace and Security in Afghanistan (Amiri, 2020); Political Development in Afghanistan (Amiri, 2019); US Foreign Policy in Afghanistan (Research Institute of Strategic Studies, Tehran, 2008); and, as editor, Afghanistan’s Foreign Policy: On Regional Cooperation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabul, 2014). He has also published journal articles, book chapters and policy papers on international relations, foreign policy and security.

You can contact him at: [email protected] or [email protected]

You can read his full CV here.