Judging Team Member
Elham Naddaf
As an undergraduate student, Elham Naddaf had worked as a librarian at the Physics Dept of Sharif University of technology in Tehran, Iran. After moving to US, she first conducted independent researches under the guidance of Prof. Peter Chelkowski while tutoring graduate students of Hagop Kevorkian Center at NYU. Later as a graduate student at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, she worked as a Student-Teacher, teaching her own course at the Near Eastern Department.
After graduation, she started working at Trilogy in Austin, TX, setting up the infrastructure of the subcontractor management department, and eventually she co-managed the different sub-departments of that same department.
Upon moving to Dallas, TX, Elham started her work at Prodea Systems, and at present time she works as Anousheh Ansari’s business manager assisting her in her philanthropic and educational endeavors.
Elham is a certified court interpreter, holding a B.Sc. in Applied Physics from Sharif University of Technology, and an M.A in Near Eastern Literature and Languages from U of M in Ann Arbor.