Nasser Boladai is the Secretary General of the Balochistan People’s Party (BPP), member of the Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran (CNFI) Foreign Affairs Committee, and member of the Balochistan Human Rights Group’s (BHRG) Advocacy Committee. He was born and raised in Balochistan in Iran. Mr. Boladai holds a master’s degree in Linguistics from Stockholm University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Computer and Systems Sciences from Stockholm University. He has been a longstanding member of the editorial board of the Baloch and Persian language magazine TRAN, devoted to political and cultural discourse among Balochis and other Iranians. He has contributed to numerous articles on ethnic and national self-determination, citizen sovereignty, federalism, and Balochi language, literature, and folklore. Mr. Boladai has been a prominent and outspoken critic of the current Iranian regime, with particular attention to the extrajudicial killings, unlawful imprisonment, and other human rights violations committed against the Balochis in Iran. From June 2015 to March 2022, he was also the President of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), working to support a wide variety of minority communities around the world.