Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (Persian: محمد توكلي طرقي; born 1957)[1] is an Iranian-born Canadian scholar, editor, author, professor, and program director.
He is a professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations,[2] and he serves as the Director of Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
[5] He moved to the University of Toronto in 2004, where he is the first director of the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies.
[6] Starting in 2022, a multi-year research partnership was formed between the Encyclopædia Iranica and the University of Toronto, under Tavakoli-Targhi's leadership.
[6] Tavakoli-Targhi has served as an editor including at the academic journal, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East from 2001 until 2012;[3][7] and at Iran Nameh from 2011 until 2015.