An internationally recognized scholar and public intellectual, Dr. Mohsen Milani is the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies and Professor of Politics at the University of South Florida. He served as Chair of the Department of Government and International Affairs at USF for thirteen years. . He also was a research fellow at Harvard University, Oxford University, and the Foscari University in Venice, Italy.

Dr. Milani has authored more than 80 publications in top peer-reviewed academic and respected popular journals, including over a dozen pieces in Foreign Affairs, the county's leading foreign policy journal. His works have been translated into Persian, French, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese. His earlier book, "The Making of Iran’s Islamic Revolution", has been used as a required reading in major universities in the US, Europe, and Iran. Since 2000, he has been invited to 200 conferences in 27 countries. His advice is solicited by private and governmental entities. He has testified before US Congress as a subject matter expert.

As a regular commentator on current international affairs, Dr. Milani has reached tens of millions of readers and viewers across the globe. Among others, he has been interviewed or quoted by over 200 national and international media outlets, including The New York Times, Le Monde, The Economist, Der Spiegel, BBC World News, CNN, Russian TV, AlJazeera, Correio Braziliense (Brazil). CGTV (China), TO VIMA (Greece), Radio Israel, Chuo-Koron (Japan), Toronto Star, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Avvenenire (Italy), Publico (Portugal), ABC Radio (Sydney, Australia), B1 TV (Romania), Chunichi Newspaper (Japan), The Hindu (India), Il Reformista (Italy), Nepszabadsag (Hungary), Globo News (Brazil), ABC Nightline Live, and many more.