Dr. Fayyaz Vellani is a prestigious geopolitical researcher of global stature and recognition. His publications are a benchmark of excellence and rigor. Evidence of this is latent in his scientific article Engagement with Place: Cairo as a Classroom on Events and Discourses of the Arab Spring. This text was awarded the Excellence Award of the International Journal of Diversity.  

In his professional career, Dr. Vellani has been linked to multiple university teaching institutions. He has held prominent positions such as Director of the Research Program at the College House of the University of Pennsylvania. At that institution he has also taught and lectured on Critical Writing.

He has also held other positions such as Head of the Department of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and Associate Registrar at Yale Law School. He has also been academically associated with the University of Toronto. 

Vellani's research specialties include disability studies, geopolitics and sustainable development. He considers himself a "humanistic geographer" and most of his studies have appeared in journals as diverse as Disability and Society and Communities and Nations. In addition, he has worked in countries such as Egypt, Syria, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan, where religion and war have radically marked the social, cultural and political reality.  

On the other hand, his book "Understanding the Disability Discrimination Act through Geography" has the unanimous support of the academic community thanks to its exhaustive geopolitical and social analysis. He has also ventured into fiction literature with the novel "Tea with Ms. Tanzania", which demonstrates this expert's ability to weave stories into his academic, administrative or creative work, regardless of the context.

• Director of the Research Program at the College House of the University of Pennsylvania
• Associate Director of the Critical Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania 
• Head of the Department of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London 
• Associate Registrar, Yale University Law School 
• Associate Professor at the University of Toronto 
• Author of several scholarly articles and books on Geopolitics, Disability and Sustainable Development 
• Author of the fictional novel Tea with Ms. Tanzania 
• PhD in Geography from the University of London 
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Catalyst Campaign at New York University