Mahbod Seraji Ph.D., (Persian:مهبد سراجی) is an Iranian-American author whose critically acclaimed novel, Rooftops of Tehran, was published by NAL (an imprint of Penguin) in May 2009.

After a two-year assignment at Arthur Andersen, Mahbod accepted an appointment as the Senior Vice President of Moore - Forum Alliance.

In 2000, he moved to San Francisco where he served as the vice president and chief learning officer at PeopleSoft University.

Rooftops is a passionate philosophical novel set in pre-Islamic revolution in Iran and speaks to the universality of human condition irrespective of culture, religion, and nationality.

In an interview at the end of the book Seraji says that "In writing Rooftops of Tehran, I wanted to acquaint readers with Iran, and bring to life a small part of the centuries-old Persian culture.