Dr. Fatemeh Shayan is an assistant professor at University of Isfahan, Iran. She is the winner of the 2019 Farabi International Award. <http://farabiaward.ir/content/243/Winners-of-the-10th-Farabi-International-Award Earlier>, she was a post-doctoral scholar at University of Tampere (UTA), Finland. She completed her doctoral study, along with many academic publications in international journals, in the Faculty of Management at UTA, and defended her dissertation in December 2014. She was also a researcher at UTA during 2013-2014. Her latest book, Security in the Persian Gulf Region, was published by Palgrave <McMillan.https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137586773> Her research areas include energy policy, natural gas, European Union energy issues, Russia, Iran and Qatar energy issues, and Persian Gulf security complex.