Ahmad Meydari

Ahmad Meydari
احمد میدری
Minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare
Incumbent
Assumed office
21 August 2024
PresidentMasoud Pezeshkian
Preceded bySowlat Mortazavi
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
27 May 2000 – 26 May 2004
ConstituencyAbadan
Personal details
Born1963 (age 61–62)
Alma materTehran University

Ahmad Meydari (Persian: احمد میدری; born 1963) is an Iranian politician and economist who has been the Minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare since August 21, 2024. He was the former representative of Abadan Constituency in the sixth convocation of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian parliament) and a member of the Economic Commission of that body.

Biography

Meydari has a specialized doctorate in economics and a master's degree in economic development and planning from Tehran University. He has a teaching experience at Allameh Tabatabai University and Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, and in 2012, he completed a short-term educational and research course at the United Nations University in social welfare.

Meydari was a representative of the sixth convocation of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (2000–2004) from the constituency of Abadan and was a member of its Economic Commission.[1] The signature of the letter known as Jam Zahr to the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran[2] (which, according to some, by him personally It was written[3] among his actions during the representative period. Meydari was one of the 139 representatives of this parliament who sat down in the parliament in protest of their disqualification in the 7th parliament elections by the Guardian Council and collectively resigned from representation.[4]

In the 11th and 12th governments, Meydari worked as the deputy of social welfare of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security[5] and was simultaneously appointed as the secretary of the Social Security Board of Trustees in 2013. Since 2016, he has been the head of the Statistics Committee (Statistical Council) of the Ministry of Cooperation, Labor and Social Welfare.[6] On 21 August 2024 he was confirmed as Minister of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare in the Government of Masoud Pezeshkian.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "نماینده مردم آبادان از کارنامه اقتصادی مجلس ششم دفاع کرد" (in Persian). IRNA. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
  2. ^ "باز نشر نامه جمعی از نمایندگان اصلاح طلب مجلس ششم به رهبری" (in Persian). norooznews.org. Archived from the original on 2016-08-08.
  3. ^ "روانبخش: میدری برای رهبری نامه جام زهر نوشت" (in Persian). borna.news.
  4. ^ "اسامی نمايندگانی که استعفا داده اند" (in Persian). BBC in Persian. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  5. ^ "معاون رفاه اجتماعی وزارت کار منصوب شد" (in Persian). tabnak.ir. 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  6. ^ "میدری رئیس "شورای آمار" وزارت کار شد" (in Persian). Mehr News Agency. Retrieved 2024-09-10.
  7. ^ Sinaiee, Maryam (2024-08-21). "Who's who in Pezeshkian's cabinet?". Iran International. Retrieved 2024-09-10.