Dr. Roya Izadi

Roya Izadi is a policy advisor and applied researcher specializing in security-sector governance, civil-military relations, conflict analysis, and institutional reform. As Co-Founder and Managing Director, she leads from the firm's U.S. office while working across its U.S. and UAE operations. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Roya has advised international organizations, research institutions, security forces, and local partners on policy challenges spanning women's participation in peace operations, military reform, conflict risk, and the role of security institutions in political and economic life. She has worked with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance, UN Women, the Latin American Defense and Security Forum, and national partners in Cambodia, Uruguay, Jordan, Fiji, Bangladesh, and Senegal through the Measuring Opportunities for Women in Peace Operations initiative. Her work combines institutional assessment, stakeholder engagement, field research, comparative analysis, map-making and spatial analysis, and policy design. She has supported the Liberian military in developing an institutional action plan, produced applied analysis on security forces for a multilateral policy institution, and contributed to three annual global conflict-risk reports.

Best positioned for security-sector reform, peace operations, institutional diagnostics, and high-stakes governance work where policy design must account for operational and political constraints. Email: roya@srateam.com.