Ali Akbar Salehi

Vice President & Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Salehi

Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (13 December 2010 as acting Minister, 30 January 2011 officially)
Appointed Head of Atomic Energy Organization by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (16 July 2009 – 23 January 2011)
Deputy Secretary-General of Organization of the Islamic Conference under Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (2007 – 2009)
Signed the Additional Protocol thus strengthening the IAEA’s authority (18 December 2003)
Appointed Permanent Representative of Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) by President Mohammad Khatami (13 March 1997 – 22 August 2005)
Member of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy
Member of the Academy of Sciences of Iran
Chancellor of Sharif University of Technology (1982 – 1985 and 1989 – 1993)
Associate professor at Sharif University of Technology
PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
BS from the American University of Beirut
Born 24 March 1949 (Karbala, Iraq)

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