Dr. Mostafa Zamanyan is a Ph.D. graduate in management with a focus on decision-making and public policy from the University of Tehran. His dissertation was on designing appropriate strategies to deal with policy-making failures, which he successfully defended in 2017 with high distinction. Since 2004, he has been active in various levels and topics of organizational strategic planning and national policy-making. One of his main concerns has been the formation of a national academic system and a sectoral policy advisory network in various fields such as energy, culture, endowments and social affairs, and maritime industries.
His research areas include institutional mapping analysis, regulation, policy advisory systems, compilation of national development roadmaps, and the social sector and voluntary organizations. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Governance of Culture and Family at the Faculty of Governance at the University of Tehran.