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Salar Ghahramani is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and International Law & Policy and Founding Co-Chair of the International Task Force on Sovereign Wealth Fund Research at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He has taught international law at the Maastricht Center for Transatlantic Studies in the Netherlands and has led academic programs to the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the European Commission in Brussels, and the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He was recently a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute, where he researched the continental approach to socially responsible investing and attended a program on the Law of the European Union.

Previously, Salar served at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where he researched foreign policy and international relations, and conducted research for the Corporate Executive Board, where he advised multinational clients on business strategy.

Salar holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree and a Certificate in International, Comparative, and Foreign Law from the Pennsylvania State University, where he also received his B.A. in International Politics as a Schreyer Scholar. At Penn State, he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and was a recipient of the Honors Medal and the President's Award.

Additionally, Salar studied transnational and comparative law at Duke University's Geneva Institute in Transnational Law in Geneva, Switzerland; the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in Rome, Italy; and the Faculty of Law at the University of Florence. He was also a recipient of a merit scholarship to research British theatre and architecture in London.

Salar's articles have appeared in a number of publications, including Corporate Governance, Hastings Business Law Journal, the International Journal of Law and Management, and the Yale Journal of International Affairs, and he has conducted seminars and interviews on constitutional law, commercial law, and international business law.

An avid traveler, Salar has lived in five countries, visited across continents, and has driven to 49 states.

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