Alireza Ali Ahmadi | |
Office: | Minister of Education |
Term Start: | 19 February 2008 |
Term End: | 3 September 2009 |
President: | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
Predecessor: | Mahmoud Farshidi |
Successor: | Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee |
Birth Date: | 11 May 1959 |
Birth Place: | Isfahan, Iran |
Party: | |
Alma Mater: | Tarbiat Modares University Science and Technology University |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Alireza Ali Ahmadi (born 11 May 1959 in Isfahan) is an Iranian politician and the current CEO of the National Iranian Tanker Company.[2] He is the former Minister of Education from 2008 to 2009.[3] Before his appointment as Minister of Education, he was chancellor of Payame Noor University.[4] He was also proposed Minister of Commerce in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first cabinet which he was not confirmed by the Iranian Parliament. He was one of the candidates in 2013 presidential election but was withdrawn on 21 May.