Nader Mousavizadeh

Nader Mousavizadeh is a businessman, author, geo-political advisor and commentator, and former senior United Nations official who was an advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan from 1997 to 2003. According to Perry Anderson in the London Review of Books, Mousavizadeh was one of Annan's two key advisers in this period, alongside Edward Mortimer.

Nader grew up in Denmark. He moved to the United States where he studied at Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then moved to the United Kingdom where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Mousavizadeh was a banker at Goldman Sachs and was CEO of Oxford Analytica.

Mousavizadeh is the co-author, with Kofi Annan, of the latter's 2012 memoir, Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, and is the editor of The Black Book Of Bosnia: The Consequences Of Appeasement which is a collection of commentary pieces published in The New Republic of which he was assistant editor at the time. He has also written for The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Times of London, and Foreign Policy, and was a foreign columnist for Reuters. He sits on the Trilateral Commission.