Ata Hoodashtian

Ata Hoodashtian is an associate professor and research director based in Toronto, Canada.
Ata Hoodashtian was born in Tehran, Iran, and has lived in USA, France and Canada since 1975. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Paris (8), MA and DEA in Philosophy from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1). Hoodashtian has taught at the University of Paris (8), Institutes, Grandes Ecoles at both graduate and undergraduate levels in Paris for about 10 years. Working in Central Asia as an Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Political Science, Hoodashtian has also as the Director of the Research Center at Kimep University in Almaty, Kazakhstan for 3 years. An expatriate, he has worked in China (Shanghai), South Africa, Switzerland (Geneva).
Hoodashtian has collaborated with Yale University (Yale Center for International and Area Studies - USA), European, Central African, and Central Asian Universities. His career records in research Institutes includes being the Chair of the Editorial Board of the “Central Asian Journal" for two years, a journal published in collaboration with Yale University. He was a member of the CRISE, a research center at the University of Paris 8 as well.
He served as the Vice Rector at Swiss Umef University, Geneva (2015-2018), and has been teaching as an Associate Professor since 2014 in Political Science and Philosophy at the same University. He has been Umef program director in Yerevan (Armenia), Niamey (Niger), Bamako (Mali).
Hoodashtian’s areas of research are: Modernity, Modern and traditional philosophical systems (East and West), Métissage of Values (cultural hybridity), Intercultural Studies, International Politics, Islamic society, Iran and modernity, the Middle East and Central Asia.
He has published books and articles in English, French and Persian languages.
His books are as follows:
On Iranian revolutionary movements (1980) in Persian, published in Tehran, Iran
Modernity, Globalization and Iran, (2002), in Persian, published in Tehran, Iran
Modernity beyond the West (2006), in French, published in Paris, France
New Political Leadership: A Revised Vista (2021), in Persian, published in Stockholm (www.leadership21.org)