Dr. Seyed Masoud Noori is the founding Executive Director of the Roya Institute for Global Justice, a New York-based human rights NGO. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU Arts & Science.
He serves as a member of the Streeting Committee of US Section of Scholar At Risk Network (SAR), and as Co-Chair of the Communications Committee of Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE), a global alliance of individuals committed to achieving justice through education.
Before leaving Iran, Dr. Noori was a faculty member at Mofid University Law School in Qom, where he held several leadership roles at the Center for Human Rights Studies.
His professional experience includes working with UNICEF, UNDP, and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Prior to joining NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, he was an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law. Before that, he served as a Visiting Scholar at Trinity University (San Antonio, TX), where he taught courses related to current issues in the Middle East.
He also previously served as Research Director of the Center for the Study of Islam & the Middle East (CSIME), a Washington, D.C.-based NGO.
Dr. Noori was a recipient of the MESA Global Academy Fellowship for the 2021–2022 academic year.
His other academic affiliations have included posts at Emory Law School (Atlanta, Georgia) and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
His research interests include Islam and Human Rights, Academic Freedom, Environmental Rights, Legal Clinics and Clinical Legal Education (CLE), the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and Interfaith Dialogue.
