Constituency Tehran Nationality Iranian | Residence Tehran, Iran Name Ali Tehrani | |
Born 18 March 1950 (age 74)
Iran ( 1950-03-18 ) Political party Resistance Front (Ultraconservative) Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tehran University
Amirkabir University of Technology Religion Usuli Twelver Shi'a Islam | ||
Ali Abbaspoor Tehrani Fard (Persian: علی عباسپور طهرانی فرد) is an Iranian Politician, Academic, Nuclear Scientist and Professor at Sharif University of Technology. He was the president of the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran from 2012 till 2017.
Contents
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, and in 1983 he earned his Ph.D. in Energy, Power Plant Technology, Nuclear Energy from the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
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. 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). Presently, Tehrani-Frad is campaigning for parliamentary elections to represent Tehran as an ultraconservative.