Mohsen Behzad Karimi

Mohsen Behzad Karimi is a Senior Fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy (EFD). He is a European affairs analyst and journalist specialising in geopolitics, democratic governance, and developments within European institutions. His regional expertise covers the Middle East and North Africa, with a particular focus on Iran. In the European context, his work examines EU–Iran relations, freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in relation to human rights and religious legal traditions, as well as developments in green and sustainable mobility from a geopolitical and geostrategic perspective, and EU migration frameworks. He is an alumnus of KU Leuven.