Bijan Namdar Zangeneh
5th & 10th Minister of Petroleum
In office
15 August 2013 – 25 August 2021
PresidentHassan Rouhani
DeputyKazem Vaziri Hamaneh
Marzieh Shah-Daei
Preceded byRostam Ghasemi
Succeeded byJavad Owji
In office
20 August 1997 – 24 August 2005
PresidentMohammad Khatami
Preceded byGholam Reza Aghazadeh
Succeeded byKazem Vaziri Hamaneh
11th Minister of Energy
In office
20 September 1988 – 20 August 1997
PresidentAli Khamenei
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Prime MinisterMir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded byAbolhassan Khamoushi (Acting)
Succeeded byHabibollah Bitaraf
1st Minister of Jihad of Construction
In office
20 February 1984 – 20 September 1988
PresidentAli Khamenei
Prime MinisterMir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byGholamreza Forouzesh
Personal details
Born (1952-09-21) 21 September 1952 (age 71)[1]
Kermanshah, Iran
Political partyExecutives of Construction Party
Children4[2]
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
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Bijan Namdar Zangeneh (Persian: بيژن نامدار زنگنه; born 21 September 1952) is an Iranian politician, who served as minister, at different cabinets after the Islamic Revolution, for 30 years. He lately served as Minister of Petroleum from 2013 to 2021 in the cabinet led by Hassan Rouhani.

Early life and education

Zangeneh was born to a Kurdish family in Kermanshah in 1952.[3] He spent his early school years in his hometown before moving to Tehran where he received his high school diploma. He received his MSc in civil engineering from the University of Tehran in 1977 and then became a Civil Engineering professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology until his retirement in 2006.[4]

Career and activities

Namdar Zanganeh (right) as minister of energy with Ali Khamenei, visiting Karkheh Dam, 14 March 1997.

Following the 1979 revolution, Zangeneh was appointed deputy for the minister of culture and Islamic guidance in 1980.[5] In 1983, he was made minister of construction jihad.[5] He was appointed minister of energy in the government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi in 1988.[5] He also served as the energy minister in Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's cabinet[6] and made massive efforts for reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country's water and electricity industry in the aftermath of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and the damages caused to the industry in the Iraqi attacks. He was the minister of petroleum in Mohammad Khatami's cabinet.[6] Zangeneh was replaced by Kazem Vaziri Hamane in the post on 29 August 2005 as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[5]

He was appointed as a member of the Expediency Council by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 1996. He taught at several universities and academic centers; but he was basically a faculty member at K. N. Toosi University of Technology.

In early August 2013, Zangeneh was nominated as the petroleum minister by President Rouhani and was confirmed on 15 August.[7] On 21 August Zanganeh was named as the head of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) for 2013.[8] Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh was appointed as Zangeneh's deputy on 3 September.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Eng. Bijan Namdar Zanganeh" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  2. ^ "سوابق و کارنامه "بیژن نامدار زنگنه" که روحانی روز گذشته به مجلس داد- اخبار سیاسی تسنیم | Tasnim". خبرگزاری تسنیم | Tasnim (in Persian). Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Zangeneh, a Kurd, confirmed as Iran oil minister". www.rudaw.net. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  4. ^ http://dolat.ir/detail/230025 خلاصه ای از سوابق علمی ،فرهنگی ،سیاسی و اجرایی وزیرنفت
  5. ^ a b c d Sara Vakhshouri (21 August 2013). "Iran's Oil Minister Confronts Sanctions". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  6. ^ a b "Iranian Parliament Approves Moderate President's New Cabinet". The New York Times. 21 August 1997. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  7. ^ Kamali Dehghan, Saeed (15 August 2013). "Iran's parliament approves 15 of Hassan Rouhani's 18 cabinet ministers". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  8. ^ "Iran's Oil Minister Appointed GECF Head". Mees. 21 August 2013. Archived from the original on 13 September 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  9. ^ "Vaziri-Hamaneh appointed as Iran's deputy oil minister". Tehran Times. 3 September 2013. Archived from the original on 13 September 2013. Retrieved 13 September 2013.

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Political offices Preceded byPosition established Minister of Agriculture 1983–1988 Succeeded byGholamreza Forouzesh Preceded byMohammad-Taqi Banqi Minister of Energy 1988–1997 Succeeded byHabibollah Bitaraf Preceded byGholam Reza Aghazadeh Minister of Petroleum 1997–2005 Succeeded byKazem Vaziri Hamane Preceded byRostam Ghasemi Minister of Petroleum 2013–2021 Succeeded byJavad Owji
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