President Hassan Rouhani Occupation Professor Battles and wars Iran–Iraq War Nationality Iranian Succeeded by Mohammad-Ali Najafi | Preceded by Mansour Khalili Role Iranian Politician Preceded by Jafar Towfighi Name Reza Farajidana Allegiance Iran | |
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Full Name Reza Faraji-Dana Born 27 October 1960 (age 63)
Qom, Iran ( 1960-10-27 ) Alma mater University of Tehran
University of Waterloo Service/branch Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution Education University of Waterloo (1993), University of Waterloo (1989), University of Tehran | ||
Reza Faraji-Dana (born 1960 in Qom) is a reformist Iranian politician and the former minister of Science, Research and Technology under President Hassan Rouhani. He served as president of University of Tehran, and as the former president of the Iranian branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Biography
Reza Farji-Dana was born on 1960 in Qom and received his math diploma from Hakim Nezami high school in 1978. In the same year he obtained admission from Shiraz University in electrical engineering.
He studied electrical engineering at the University of Tehran, and at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. He graduated with a Ph.D. degree from University of Waterloo in 1993. He is currently the professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tehran.
Dismissal
Iranian parliament dismissed him as Minister of Science on 20 August 2014. The conservative MPs accused him of permitting students involved in 2009–10 Iranian election protests to continue their education in public universities. He was also accused of appointing senior department heads from people who were involved in mass protests of 2009. Some of the PMs who voted for the dismissal of Farajidana were allegedly benefiting from unlawful scholarships in previous government and the list of those who granted unlawful scholarships has been revealed during the ministration of Farajidana.