| Bijan Namdar Zangeneh | |
| Birth Date: | 21 September 1952[1] |
| Birth Place: | Kermanshah, Iran |
| Order: | 5th & 10th Minister of Petroleum |
| Term Start: | 15 August 2013 |
| Term End: | 25 August 2021 |
| Deputy: | Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh Marzieh Shah-Daei |
| President: | Hassan Rouhani |
| Predecessor: | Rostam Ghasemi |
| Term Start2: | 20 August 1997 |
| Term End2: | 24 August 2005 |
| President2: | Mohammad Khatami |
| Predecessor2: | Gholam Reza Aghazadeh |
| Successor2: | Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh |
| Order3: | 11th Minister of Energy |
| Term Start3: | 20 September 1988 |
| Term End3: | 20 August 1997 |
| President3: | Ali Khamenei Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| Primeminister3: | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Successor3: | Habibollah Bitaraf |
| Order4: | 1st Minister of Jihad of Construction |
| Term Start4: | 20 February 1984 |
| Term End4: | 20 September 1988 |
| President4: | Ali Khamenei |
| Primeminister4: | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| Predecessor4: | Office established |
| Successor4: | Gholamreza Forouzesh |
| Party: | Executives of Construction Party |
| Children: | 4[2] |
| Signature: | Bijan Namdar Zanganeh signature.svg |
Bijan Namdar Zangeneh (fa|بيژن نامدار زنگنه; born 21 September 1952) is an Iranian politician, who served as minister, at different cabinets after the Islamic Revolution, for 30 years. He lately served as Minister of Petroleum from 2013 to 2021 in the cabinet led by Hassan Rouhani.
Zangeneh was born to a Kurdish family in Kermanshah in 1952.[3] He spent his early school years in his hometown before moving to Tehran, where he received his high school diploma. He received his MSc in civil engineering from the University of Tehran in 1977 and then became a Civil Engineering professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology until his retirement in 2006.[4]
Following the 1979 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. He was appointed minister of energy in the government of Mir-Hossein Mousavi in 1988. He also served as the energy minister in Akbar 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 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and the damages caused to the industry in the Iraqi attacks. He was the minister of petroleum in Mohammad Khatami's cabinet. Zangeneh was replaced by Kazem Vaziri Hamane in the post on 29 August 2005 as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
He was appointed a member of the Expediency Council by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 1996. He taught at several universities and academic centers; but he was basically a faculty member at K. 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 of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) for 2013.[8] Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh was appointed Zangeneh's deputy on 3 September.[9]