Ramin Jahanbegloo is a well-known Iranian philosopher. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy, History and Political Science and later his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University. In 1993 he taught at the Academy of Philosophy in Tehran. He has been a researcher at the French Institute for Iranian Studies and a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. He was an adjunct professor in political philosophy at the University of Toronto from 1991 to 2001.  He was also the director of the department for Contemporary Thought at the Cultural Research Bureau-Tehran. He was the Rajni Kothari Chair in Democracy at the CSDS from 2005 to 2007. He is presently a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of 20 books in English, French, Spanish and Persian. His books include: Beyond Violence (2009), The Spirit of India (2008),  India Revisited (2007) Elogio de la Diversidad (2007) The Clash of Intolerances (2007), Thinking India (with Ashis Nandy)(2006), Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity (2004), Penser la Nonviolence (1999), Gandhi: Aux Sources de La Nonviolence (1998), Conversations with Isaiah Berlin (1992). He is also the author of many articles in Iranian, Indian, American and French journals. He was imprisoned by the Iranian regime in 2006 at the notorious Evin prison for 125 day.

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