Mahnaz Afkhami Politician

Mahnaz Afkhami (Persian: مهناز افخمی‎), is Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership (WLP). She is also the Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies and former Minister of Women's Affairs of Iran. She has lived in exile in the United States since 1979.Afkhami has been an advocate of women's rights for more than three decades, having founded and headed several international non-governmental organizations focused on advancing the status of women. Afkhami has lectured and published extensively on the international women’s movement, women's human rights, women in leadership, women and technology, the status of women in Muslim majority societies, and women's participation in civil society building and democratization. Her books have been translated in multiple languages and distributed internationally.