Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

Professor Haleh Afshar OBE is a lecturer in Politics and Women's Studies at the University of York and Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at the Faculte Internationale de Droit Compare. Of Iranian origin, she worked as a journalist before and after her initial studies at York, where she was to return following her PhD from Cambridge University.

Prof. Afshar serves on several bodies, notably the British Council and the United Nations Association, of which she is Honorary President of International Services.

Her University of York profile can be read [here] http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/staff/profiles/ha.htm