Bijan Namdar Zangeneh | |
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| 5th & 10thMinister of Petroleum | |
| In office 15 August 2013 – 25 August 2021 | |
| President | Hassan Rouhani |
| Deputy | Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh Marzieh Shah-Daei |
| Preceded by | Rostam Ghasemi |
| Succeeded by | Javad Owji |
| In office 20 August 1997 – 24 August 2005 | |
| President | Mohammad Khatami |
| Preceded by | Gholam Reza Aghazadeh |
| Succeeded by | Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh |
| 11thMinister of Energy | |
| In office 20 September 1988 – 20 August 1997 | |
| President | Ali Khamenei Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Preceded by | Abolhassan Khamoushi(Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Habibollah Bitaraf |
| 1stMinister of Jihad of Construction | |
| In office 20 February 1984 – 20 September 1988 | |
| President | Ali Khamenei |
| Prime Minister | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Gholamreza Forouzesh |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1952-09-21)21 September 1952 (age 72)[1] Kermanshah,Iran |
| Political party | Executives of Construction Party |
| Children | 4[2] |
| Alma mater | University of Tehran |
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Bijan Namdar Zangeneh (Persian:بيژن نامدار زنگنه; born 21 September 1952) is anIranian politician, who served as minister, at different cabinets after the Islamic Revolution, for 30 years. He lately served asMinister of Petroleum from 2013 to 2021 inthe cabinet led byHassan Rouhani.
Zangeneh was born to a Kurdish family inKermanshah in 1952.[3] He spent his early school years in his hometown before moving toTehran, where he received his high school diploma. He received his MSc in civil engineering from theUniversity of Tehran in 1977 and then became a Civil Engineering professor atK. N. Toosi University of Technology until his retirement in 2006.[4]
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Following the1979 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 ofMir-Hossein Mousavi in 1988.[5] He also served as the energy minister inAkbar 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 1980–1988Iran–Iraq War and the damages caused to the industry in the Iraqi attacks. He was the minister of petroleum inMohammad Khatami's cabinet.[6] Zangeneh was replaced byKazem Vaziri Hamane in the post on 29 August 2005 as appointed by PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad.[5]
He was appointed a member of theExpediency Council by theSupreme Leader,Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 1996. He taught at several universities and academic centers; but he was basically a faculty member atK. 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 ofGas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) for 2013.[8] Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh was appointed Zangeneh's deputy on 3 September.[9]
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| Preceded by Position established | Minister of Agriculture 1983–1988 | Succeeded by Gholamreza Forouzesh |
| Preceded by Mohammad-Taqi Banqi | Minister of Energy 1988–1997 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Petroleum 1997–2005 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Minister of Petroleum 2013–2021 | Succeeded by |
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