Bernard Hourcade

Bernard Hourcade is a geographer, Senior Research Fellow, emeritus at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris). In Tehran he was Director of the Institut Français de Recherche en Iran IFRI (1978-1993), and later in Paris founder and director of the research center Monde iranien (1993-2003). Bernard Hourcade conducted numerous field studies with Iranian scholars about the social and political geography of Iran and about urban development, especially Greater Tehran. His analyses on Iran have been published or broadcast in many French an international media.