Afshin Molavi is an Iranian-American author and co-director of Emerge 85 Lab, a joint research initiative between the Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute and UAE-based Delma Institute. He is also a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and a senior advisor at Oxford Analytica. At New America, he co-directs the World Economy Roundtable, which focuses on changes in the global economy following the Great Recession.
In 2005, he was selected as a 'Young Global Leader' by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland by a selection committee chaired by Queen Rania of Jordan.