professional excellence AWARDEE 2022

Kourosh Ziabari (Iran)

Kourosh Ziabari is an award-winning journalist from Iran and an Asia Times correspondent. A recipient of the Chevening Scholarship from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Office, he is the Silver winner of the Prince Albert II of Monaco and United Nations Correspondents Association Global Prize for Coverage of Climate Change.

He is also an alumnus of the Senior Journalists Seminar Fellowship by the East-West Center, a 2022 Dag Hammarskjold Fund for Journalists fellow, and a 2022 World Press Institute fellow with the University of St. Thomas. He was a finalist for three Kurt Schork Awards in international journalism in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and his writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, Al-Monitor, The National Interest, openDemocracy, Middle East Eye, Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, Responsible Statecraft, the Middle East Institute, and The New Arab.

Kourosh is an American Middle Eastern Network for Dialogue at Stanford fellow. Some of the dignitaries he has interviewed include the former Austrian President Heinz Fischer, President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, former President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk, the late Portuguese President Mario Soares, former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Nobel Prize laureates Jose Ramos-Horta, Vernon L. Smith, Edmund Phelps, Antony Hewish, and Frank Wilczek.