Ellie Geranmayeh

Ellie Geranmayeh is a senior policy fellow and deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). She was identified as a member of the Iran Experts Initiative, attending the inaugural meeting at Vienna's Palais Coburg in May 2014 alongside other Western-based Iranian academics recruited by the Iranian Foreign Ministry through IPIS to promote Tehran's nuclear negotiating positions.