Majid Tehranian was the first director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research and is currently visiting professor at Soka University of America. He has previously taught at Harvard, Oxford, Tufts, USC, and Tehran universities. He has held positions in both national and international organizations, including founding director of Iran Communication and Development Institute, program specialist at UNESCO, director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and council member of the International Peace Research Association.