Seyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour is currently President of the  Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2013 to 2016 he was Advisor to the Minister Foreign Affairs on Strategic Issues. Between 2002 and 2004 he was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations. Prior to this he was the Director General of the Institute for Political and International Studies, the research branch of Iran’s Foreign Ministry.