Nadia Marques de Carvalho

Thesis Title: Iran’s Last Shah & the British Government: Oil, Arms and Geopolitics, 1955 – 1979

Supervisor: Professor Eugene Rogan and Dr Maryam Alemzadeh

Nadia is a doctoral candidate at St Antony’s College, Oxford, focusing on the complex and often overlooked relationship between Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and the British government in the years leading up to the Iranian Revolution. She holds a degree in Government from the London School of Economics (2013) and a Master’s in Iranian Studies from the University of St Andrews (2014). With a professional background in financial crime and compliance, Nadia has conducted extensive investigations into sanctions, money laundering, and the LIBOR scandal across London and Paris. Currently, she applies her analytical skills in the Corporate Finance division at Hitachi Energy in Zurich.