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I am writing to apply for the position of [MENTION THE POSITION] that you advertised on the FMA’s website. Born in a small town in the North of Iran and raised in a middle-class family, I am a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College of New York where I am also hired as an adjunct faculty. Since 2014 I have been working as a research fellow at the Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an influential think tank in Washington DC where I advise policy makers on a range of issues related to illicit finance, economic sanctions and economy and geopolitics of the Persian Gulf region. I am currently revising the final chapter of my dissertation and expect to graduate by the end …show more content…

I am interested in the practical results of research as much as its theoretical values. I am fascinated by the intersection of finance and foreign and public policy. Over the last three years, I had the chance to contribute to the policies made and implemented by the US government in the areas of economic sanctions and the fight against terrorism financing and international illicit finance. I also would like to be involved in the public policy discussions and decision makings related to the domestic finance topics. I am applying for this position because the research capacity of [NAME OF THE SCHOOL] in my fields of interest provides me the chance of collaborating with top researchers in these fields. I hope that while I benefit from the faculty members’ knowledge and experience, they will also benefit from my hard work and previous experience in transforming academic research to actionable policy ideas and recommendations and successfully communicating those recommendations to the media and policy makers. The [SCHOOL’S] proximity to the financial markets in New York and policy making centers in Washington DC make it an ideal place for the kind of research I am interested in.

I love teaching. At Baruch, I taught as much as I could, even when I was not required to teach as part of my fellowship package. Since 2013, the year I started teaching, I have

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