Curriculum Vitae

Personal Info:

First Name: Ali

Last Name: Garshasbi
Date of Birth: 10. 05. 1984
Nationality: Iranian
Place of Birth: Tehran

Positions:

2019- Deputy Secretary General, AALCO

2019- First Secretary, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Delhi

2011-2019 Legal Advisor, Department of International Legal Affairs, Ministry of

Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Professional Experience:

- Judge of the Iranian Qualifying Round for the Jessup Competition, held by International
Law Students Association and Modern International Study institute (MIS), Tehran,
2019.
- Legal advisor of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the case concerning Alleged violations
of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights (Islamic
Republic of Iran v. United States of America), International Court of Justice, the Hague,
2018.
- Judge of the Iranian Qualifying Round for the Jessup Competition, held by International
Law Students Association and Modern International Study institute (MIS), Tehran, Iran,
2018.

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- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Fifty-sixth session of
the General Assembly Sixth Committee, Nairobi, 2017.
- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 26th session of the
Program and Budget Committee of the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO), 10-14 July 2017, Geneva, Switzerland.
- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Seventy-first session of
the United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee, New York, 2016.
- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Fifty-fifth Annual
session of AALCO, New Delhi, 2016.
- Legal Advisor to the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the second Session of
negotiations on the Multilateral Agreement on Persian Gulf-Black Sea corridor, Sofia,
Bulgaria, 2015.
- Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Joint Seminar on “the Maritime
Issues under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982)” held by the
Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Division for
Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations in
Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 11-12 May 2015.
- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Fifty-fourth Annual
session of AALCO, Beijing, 2015.
- Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Third Regional Workshop on
“International and Regional Cooperation to Combat Cybercrime” held by the United
Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes and the OSCE Border Management Staff College
and European Commission, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 18-19 August 2015.
- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Fifty-third Annual
session of AALCO, Tehran, 2014.
- Assistant to Professor Djamchid Momtaz at the General Course of the Hague Academy
of International Law, The Hague, 2014.
- Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Second Regional Workshop on
“International and Regional Cooperation to Combat Cybercrime” held by the Islamic

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 Republic of Iran Police, Economic Cooperation Organization and the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crimes, Tehran, Iran, 9-10September 2014.
- Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the workshop on “Mutual Legal
Assistance” held by the Iranian Judiciary and the United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crimes, Bandar Abbas, Iran, 7-8 May 2014.
- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 56th General Conference
of the IAEA, Vienna, 2012.
- Member of the delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran in expert meeting of Member
States to Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME)
in Doha, Qatar, 2011.

Education:

- PHD in Public International Law, thesis entitled: “Third Party Intervention in

International Adjudication”, University of Tehran, Iran, 2018.
- LLM in Public International Law, thesis entitled: “Civil Liability resulting from Oil
Spills in the High Seas”, University of Tehran, Iran, 2011.
- BA in French Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2007.
- BA in English Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2005.

Selected Publications and Speeches:

- Media, War and International Law, compendium of articles by Emily Crawford, Ben
Saul, Isabel Dusterhoft, Wael Adhami, Dan Saxon et. al., translated from English to
Persian, co-translator, Mizan Publications, Tehran, Iran, 2017.
- “Analysis of the proceedings of the Seventy-First Session of the Sixth Committee of the
United Nations of the General Assembly”, speech delivered at the Iranian Association
for United Nations Studies, Tehran, Iran, 2016.
- “Latest developments of UN Studies”, Online Monthly Review of International Law,
Iranian Association for UN Studies, 2015-2016.

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- “The Definition of ‘Operator’ in the Legal Regime on Civil Liability for Compensation
of Nuclear Damage”, speech delivered at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran,
Tehran, Iran, 2014;
- “Cyber Attacks, Opening the Pandora’s Box: Applying Old Rules to a New
Phenomenon” at the Fifth Yerevan International Young Researchers “International
Humanitarian Law: Problems and Perspectives for Development”, ICRC Student
Conference of International Humanitarian Law at the Russian-Armenian University of
Yerevan, Yerevan, Armenia, 22-24 November 2012;
- Proceedings of the Conference on the Customary International Humanitarian Law,
co-translation, two volumes (English to Persian and Persian to English), Majd
Publications, Tehran, Iran, 2011.

Languages: Persian, English, French.