Ali Asghar Mounesan | |
Office: | Minister of Cultural Heritage |
Term Start: | 3 September 2019 |
Term End: | 25 August 2021 |
President: | Hassan Rouhani |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Office1: | Vice President of Iran Head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization |
Term Start1: | 13 August 2017 |
Term End1: | 21 August 2019 |
President1: | Hassan Rouhani |
Predecessor1: | Zahra Ahmadipour |
Successor1: | Position abolished |
Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran |
Alma Mater: | Sharif University of Technology Amirkabir University of Technology |
Profession: | Civil engineer |
Ali Asghar Mounesan (Persian: علیاصغر مونسان) is an Iranian politician and former minister of Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism, was appointed on 13 August 2017 by President Hassan Rouhani.
He was formerly head of the Free Trade Zone in Kish Island, general manager of the company Atisaz and the general manager of the Engineering and Development Organization of the City of Tehran.[1] In 2014, he was appointed as a board member of Persepolis F.C.[1]
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, he contracted novel coronavirus.[2] He had recovered from the virus.[3]