Biography

Mahdi is a regional leader in sport policy and has published widely on sport diplomacy, geopolitics of sport, governance and sport events. His basic researches focus on sport diplomacy in Middle East countries specially Iran, Saudi, Qatar and UAE. He had some researches about the role of sport in facilitating the relations Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), US, BRICs (Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa) countries. After graduating from university of Tehran, Mahdi is the assistant professor at Technical and Vocational University (TVU).