Soroush Shehabi

Soroush Richard Shehabi has two decades of experience in media, law, policy and politics, with expertise in energy/environmental security and U.S.-Iran policy. Mr. Shehabi graduated from Harvard University (Class of 1987) where he obtained the support of Professors Joseph Nye and Stanley Hoffmann and the approval of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to establish a new interdisciplinary concentration in International Relations and Environmental Policy, earning High Honors for his thesis on Global Environmental Security. Mr. Shehabi then worked as a financial analyst for Salomon Brothers in NYC, focusing on the financing and acquisition of pollution control technologies, before attending law school at the University of California, (Hastings, JD, '94) and joining the law firm of Christensen, White, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser & Shapiro in LA. Mr. Shehabi was then recruited by the Untied States Department of Justice during latter half of the Clinton Administration, where he served as a U.S. Trial Attorney for six years in DC. Most recently, Mr. Shehabi has served as CEO of Washington Life Magazine as well as a Principal in a 70-year-old business-to-business media information service company which he and his partners acquired in 2007.