Mani Mostofi, Miaan’s Director, is a lawyer, international law expert, researcher, and human rights advocate with 17 years of experience. Mostofi formerly served as Communications Director and Senior Researcher at City University of New York’s Human Rights in Iran Unit where he provided support to the United Nations mechanism. Mostofi was a director of the UN Advocacy Coalition at Impact Iran.
Mostofi has been a researcher at Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights in Iran, and a project co-supervisor at Fordham Law School’s Walter Leitner Human Rights Clinic. Mostofi has a Master’s in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a Juris Doctor from Fordham Law.
