Ali Abbaspour Tehrani-Fard

Ali Abbaspoor Tehrani Fard (Persian: علی عباس‌پور طهرانی‌فرد) is an Iranian academic and conservative politician. He is a professor of electrical engineering at Sharif University of Technology and served as the president of the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran from 2012 to 2017.

Ali Abbaspoor Tehrani Fard
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 2004  28 May 2012
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
In office
28 May 1992  28 May 2000
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Personal details
Born (1950-03-18) 18 March 1950
Iran
NationalityIranian
Political partyIslamic Coalition Party[1]
Other political
affiliations
Front of Followers of the Line of the Imam and the Leader
Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (2004)
United Front of Principlists (2008)
Principlists Pervasive Coalition (2008)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Tehran
Amirkabir University of Technology
WebsiteUniversity Homepage

Education

Ali Abbaspoor Tehrani Fard earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering ranking in first place in his class from Amirkabir University of Technology and a master's degree in nuclear engineering from the University of Tehran with highest distinction. With a scholarship from MIT, Tehrani-Fard earned a bachelor and a master's degrees from MIT in Fuel Engineering Management of Nuclear Power Plant,[2][3][4] and in 1983 he earned his Ph.D. in Energy, Power Plant Technology, Nuclear Energy from the University of California at Berkeley, USA.[5]

After obtaining his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, Tehrani-Fard returned to Iran and joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering as an assistant professor at the Sharif University of Technology. Later, he served as the President of Sharif University of Technology.

Career

Ali Abbaspoor Tehrani Fard was elected as a representative of Tehran in the fourth and fifth terms of Iran’s Parliament.[6] Presently, he is the Chairman of Iran's (Majlis) Parliamentary Committee on Education and Research and has been elected to the presidency of the Forum of Asia-Pacific Parliamentarians for Education (FASPPED).[7][8][9] Presently, Tehrani-Frad is campaigning for parliamentary elections to represent Tehran as an ultraconservative.[10]

References

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