National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization representing the Iranian-American community in pursuit of a U.S. policy toward Iran based on the values of human rights and democracy.
NUFDI is a non-profit, non-partisan organization made up of Iranian-Americans of diverse backgrounds who closely follow events in their mother country of Iran.
Those events are defined by the Iranian people’s ongoing struggle to reclaim Iran from the Islamic Republic and establish freedom, human rights, and democracy in Iran.
The Iranian people’s movement seeks to reestablish peaceful, friendly relations with Iran’s neighbors and to have Iran re-engage the community of nations in a manner befitting its rich culture and heritage as a great civilization.
It rejects the regressive notion of Balkanization as a political solution. And it believes that the transition to a secular democratic system must be brought about through civil disobedience and other forms of nonviolent resistance, as advocated for many years by Prince Reza Pahlavi, a consistent and vocal supporter of this movement, and now echoed by many of the most prominent Iranian and Iranian-American political figures, activists, scholars, artists, athletes and other voices.
These are the values we have come to cherish as American citizens, and they are the same values that the people of Iran seek for their own country.
NUFDI strives to empower Iranian-Americans to be a voice for the Iranian people’s movement for freedom, human rights, and democracy.
By transmitting the sacrifices and aspirations of the Iranian people to an American audience of policymakers, media, and concerned citizens, it is our hope that we may serve to better position our fellow Americans to understand and support the Iranian people in their struggle to establish a free, democratic Iran.
Saeed Ganji, Ph.D., Sc.D.
PRESIDENT
Saeed Ganji was born in Tehran, Iran. He came to the United States to study in 1973 advancing his education by receiving a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1978), M.S. degree (1981), and Doctoral of Science degree (Sc.D.) in Power Systems, Transmission and Distribution (1988) from George Washington University. He has also completed his Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) (2005) from Howard University. His dissertation was on Image Understanding Based on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) And Stochastic Learning Automata (SLA).
Dr. Ganji spent numerous years as a professor in the EE Department at GWU, teaching electronics-related courses. He was a prominent member of a number of professional societies.
Dr. Ganji joined Electrocom Corporation in 2003 as a Chief Research Officer and was shortly promoted to the President/CEO of the company, a R&D engineering firm conducting research in Nanoscience/ Nanotechnology concentrating in tubes and wires, Sensor Technology including OLED (organic light-emitting diode) and long-wavelength light-emitting devices (InGaAsN), Semiconductor Device Electronics to include Superlattice, Transistors, Diodes, MISFETs (metal insulator semiconductor field effect transistor), MODFETs (modulated-doping FET also known as the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT), HBTs (heterojunction bipolar transistor- a high mobility, compound semiconductor bipolar transistor used in RF and radar applications), and discrete or continuous Digital Signal Processing (DSP) to improve accuracy in image recognition technology. Dr. Ganji retired from Electrocom Corporation in 2020.
Dr. Ganji is a co-author of many lecture notes, the most recent, “Model for quantum Confinement in Nanowires and the Study of Carrier Mobility in Nanowire FinFETs” published in Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, and the author of “Nanowire Growth and Mechanism of these Growth for Developing Novel Nanomaterials” published in the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
Dr. Ganji is also a board member of Index Corporation, a holding company specialized in consulting. He possesses excellent leadership and organizational skills, is a team player, disciplined, goal-oriented, as well as a motivational speaker.
Dr. Ganji has been an active member of the National Union For Democracy in Iran (NUFDI) since 2003. He currently serves as NUFDI president/CEO, where he has the oversight of general operations. Dr. Ganji is married with three children, a private pilot, a member of AOPA, and FCA. His enjoys flying, driving, traveling, and soccer.
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