The Swiss-Iranian community counts among them the Geneva-based Dr. Sharam Chubin, an internationally recognized scholar on middle-east geopolitics, security issues and Iran.  Chubin, who is nonresident senior fellow in the Carnegie Endowment, is author of several books [click this link for a list of publications https://www.amazon.com/Shahram-Chubin/e/B001HPRBO0] and has published widely in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Security, Washington Quarterly, Survival, Daedalus, the Middle East Journal, the World Today, and the Adelphi Paper series.

Chubin has taught at various universities including the Graduate School of International Studies in Geneva and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He has lectured at Oxford, Harvard, and Columbia universities as well as at military staff colleges. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense, the RAND Corporation, and the United Nations. He has been director of regional security studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a resident fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and a fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Chubin was born in Iran and educated in Britain and the United States. His last academic position before retirement was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009.