Majid Tehranian (1937–2012) was a professor of international communication at the University of Hawaii and former director of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research. A graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard, Dr. Tehranian’s publications include more than 25 books and 100 articles in over a dozen languages. During his professional life as an educator, besides teaching at University of Hawaii as full time Professor, Dr. Tehranian also taught at Leslie College, New College, University of Tehran, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, and Soka University (USA). As an internationally recognized scholar, he was a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of The Club of Rome.