Mehdi Sanaei[1] is an Iranian academic, politician, Professor in University of Tehran and Deputy of Political Affairs of the President's Office since 22 August 2024.

IRAS is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental think tank and publisher based in Tehran whose mission is to analyze and promote the understanding of major issues and current affairs of Eurasia, Russia, China, India, Turkey, Central Asia and South Caucasus.

Sanaei's last book is in Persian, Russia: Society, Politics and Government, and in Russian, "Conversations about the Future That Does Not Yet exist".

Sanaei is appointed recently (May 2022) as senior fellow of center for Governance and Public Management in Carleton University in Canada.in 2021 in cooperation with SPBGU he initiated the project of Iranistika encyclopaedia in Russian language that is prepared by Iranian and Russian Iranists.

He graduated in political science and international relation and during last years, participated in scientific and international conferences in various countries, including Qatar,Azerbaijan, Czech, Russia,Uzbekistan, South Africa, USA, China,Kazakhstan, France, Poland, Canada and othercountries.