Human Rights Activists in Iran as the Inspirational Servant Leaders, Dr. Hamid Akbari, Dec 9, 2012
Hamid Akbari is Audrey Reynolds Distinguished Teaching Professor of Management at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago where he has taught courses in management and leadership since 1986. At Northeastern, Professor Akbari also serves as the programming director for Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh Leadership Fund. From 2005 to 2007, Dr. Akbari was the Executive Director of International Society of Iranian Studies. From 1994 to 2004, he and his wife, Azar, as well as their associates, including Ario Mashayekhi, published and distributed About Iran, an action oriented bulletin in Persian and English defending human rights and democracy in Iran. Akbari received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior with a minor in political theory from the Ohio State University in 1988 and received his MBA in 1981 and MA in political science in 1982 from University of Toledo.