Office: | Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance |
Term Start: | 25 August 2021 |
Predecessor: | Farhad Dejpasand |
Successor: | Abdolnaser Hemmati |
Office1: | Economical Spokesperson of the Government of Iran |
Term Start1: | 26 October 2021 |
Predecessor1: | Office established |
Office2: | Member of the Parliament of Iran |
Term Start2: | 27 May 2020 |
Term End2: | 25 August 2021 |
Constituency2: | Tehran, Rey, Shemiranat, Eslamshahr and Pardis |
Majority2: | 801,696 (43.52%) |
Birth Place: | Gorgan, Iran |
Alma Mater: | Imam Sadiq University Islamic Azad University |
Ehsan Khandozi (Persian: سید احسان خاندوزی; born 1980) is an Iranian economist and politician who has been serving as the minister of economic and financial affairs since August 2021.
Hailing from a religious family, Khandozi was born in Gorgan in 1980.[1] [2] Beginning in 1998, he studied Islamic sciences and economics at Imam Sadiq University.[1] He has a Ph.D. in economics which he obtained from Islamic Azad University.[1] [2]
Khandozi worked as the head of the Basij.[1] In 2013 he was made the economy director of the Parliamentary Research Center.[1] From 2014 he began to work at Allameh Tabataba'i University.[1] He was elected to the Majlis in 2020 representing Tehran becoming a member of the 11th term and served there in different commissions related to economy.[2] [3] He was nominated as the minister of economic and financial affairs to the cabinet of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and was confirmed by the Majlis on 25 August 2021.[3] He received 254 votes in favor.[4]
Khandozi has published various articles and three books, including A just city: An introduction to the theory of economic justice in the Quran.[1]