Hossein Ayazi

Hossein Ayazi, Ph.D. is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Global Justice Program at the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research, teaching, and policy strategy work address the U.S. and global political economy of agri-food systems, environmental and climate change, and climate resilience, and their relationship to revolutionary-socialist and climate justice movements. 

Hossein has authored reports and peer-reviewed scholarship on U.S. and global agri-food and environmental policy, state and corporate power, trade and development, labor and migration, climate impacts and resilience strategies, food sovereignty, and climate reparations. He has organized convenings among scholars, organizers, communicators, researchers, artists, and policymakers advancing justice-centered agri-food, environmental, and climate solutions.

He is currently Coordinating Lead Author for California’s Fifth Climate Change Assessment topical report on Climate-Induced Human Displacement & Migration and has recently advised the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Global Recommendations to Prevent Loss of Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change.

Hossein’s academic publications include work in Comparative American Studies; Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences; and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; as well as forthcoming chapters in The Gospel of Work and Money: A Global History of Industrial Education and Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies: Decolonial Love, Knowledge, and Revolution.

He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley (with emphases in Geography, American Studies, and Ethnic Studies), and has held fellowships and visiting appointments at Tufts University, Williams College, and Santa Clara University.