Mahnaz Afkhami (مهناز افخمی) is Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership (WLP). She is also the Executive Director of Foundation for Iranian Studies and former Minister of Women's Affairs of Iran. She founded the Association of Iranian University Women and served as Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran prior to the Islamic revolution.

Living in exile in the United States, Afkhami has been an advocate of women's rights for more than three decades,