Holly Dagres was a nonresident senior fellow specializing in Iranian affairs, the editor of the Middle East Programs’ IranSource and MENASource publications, and the curator for the weekly newsletter, The Iranist. In a separate capacity, she is a Iran analyst (contract) for the US Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO).

Before joining the Atlantic Council, Dagres worked as a freelance Iran analyst, regularly following traditional and social media in English and Persian. She also worked as the assistant editor at the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, associated with the American University in Cairo’s Global Affairs and Public Policy School. She regularly conducts radio, television, and print interviews, including CNN, BBC News, Bloomberg, NBC News, and NPR. Her work on Iran has appeared in numerous publications, including Foreign Policy, Guardian, The New York Times, TIME, and the Washington Post. She is the author of the groundbreaking report, Iranians on #SocialMedia.

Dagres received a master’s degree in political science at the American University in Cairo, and a bachelor’s degree in political science and French from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has fifteen years of experience in the Middle East (living in Tehran, Cairo, and Jerusalem) and spent her formative years in Iran. She is fluent in Persian.