Dr. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh's present Function:
Director of the Program for Peace and Human Security (formerly Center for Peace and Human Security) at the CERI (Centre d’etudes et Recherches Internationales), in Paris ). She was the Editor in Chief National Human Development Report Afghanistan 2004.

2. Previous Functions:
Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (1992)
Russian Centre for Strategic Research and International studies, Moscow (1994),
Staff member of the UNDP in various field assignments in Central Asia, the CIS and Eastern Europe with a last posting as Policy Advisor to National Human Development Reports (NHDR) at the human Development Report Office in UNDP New York 1995-2002,
Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute for post-Soviet Studies (2002-2004),
Visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Summer 2005),

3. Biodata
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh was born 1965 in Tehran, Iran. 1983 she was on Walter Johnson High School, in 7500 Glennon Dr. Bethesda, MD 20817. Now she is the Director of the Program for Peace and Human Security (formerly Center for Peace and Human Security) at the CERI (Centre d’etudes et Recherches Internationales), in Paris ) and the Director of the Concentration on Human Security at the Master’s of Public Affairs. At Sciences Po, she also teaches Mphil and Master’s level classes on human security and on international organizations. She has launched the peer reviewed student run academic journal, the Journal of Human Security/la revue de Sécurité Humaine. She continues to provide consultation services to teams preparing National Human Development Reports and has recently worked with teams in Nepal, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, Kuwait, South East Asia, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. She was the Editor in Chief of Security with a Human Face: Challenges and Responsibilities, National Human Development Report for Afghanistan which was published in 2004. She is working with the Afghan Analysts Network (AAN) Thomas Ruttig. Tadjbakhsh holds a PhD and a Master's Degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor's Degree from Georgetown University in the US.

She is of Iranian origin.