Ruth Klein is the former National Director of the Institute for International Affairs of B'nai Brith Canada. Educated at the London School of Economics in the areas of history and international relations, she is also a former Research Assoicate of the UK-based Institute of Jewish Affairs, where she researched Jewish communities world-wide. She has also curated two major collections of rare Hebrew books and manuscripts, and is the author of Reward of Repression, a study of the arrests detention, and trials of thirteen Iranian Jews.