Azadeh Ghahghaie

Azadeh received her PhD in Political Science in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universitaet Berlin, in 2012, and her MA in American Studies, and BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Tehran, in 2007 and 2005 respectively. Her areas of research are in the study of social and human capital, and social networks and their role in social and economic mobilization, with a special focus on immigration, and socio-economic development of immigrant communities in the US. She has conducted field research in these areas in the Latino community in California as a research fellow at the University of Southern California. Following her PhD, she has worked on numerous projects on energy politics, energy security, social computing, big data in health, and most recently, entrepreneurship and sustainable development in Iran. Her strengths throughout these efforts have been in developing innovation driven solutions, strategic communications, and project management. She is currently a member of the iBridges Europe Steering team, and pursuing her passion in entrepreneurship with her newly-established company, Green Cord, in Berlin.