| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | Central Bank of Iran |
| Insignia: | Central Bank of Iran logo.svg |
| Incumbent: | Mohammad-Reza Farzin |
| Incumbentsince: | 29 December 2022 |
| Member Of: | Cabinet of Iran |
| Seat: | Bank Markazi Tower |
| Nominator: | Minister of Economic Affairs |
| Appointer: | President of Iran |
| Termlength: | No fixed term |
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran is the highest administrative authority of the Central Bank of Iran, making decisions concerning all such current affairs of the bank.[1]
Presently, the President appoints the governor upon the recommendation of the Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, who must be verified by the CBI's general assembly.[2]
Unlike many countries, the governor of central bank is not mandated to decide on the monetary policy in Iran by himself, but he is head of the body with that responsibility, The Currency and Credit Council, an organ within the central bank but controlled by the government.[3] The governor is assisted by an executive board comprising, in addition to himself as the chairman, the deputy governor, vice-governors, and the secretary-general of the Currency and Credit Council.
The law specifies no fixed term for the governor, however the officeholder is appointed for five years.
The governors of Central Bank of Iran are as follows:[4]
| Name | Term in office | Appointer | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assumed | Left | |||
| 1 | Ebrahim Kashani | 1960 | 1961 | Manouchehr Eghbal |
| 2 | Ali-Asghar Pourhomayoun | 1961 | 1964 | Ali Amini |
| 3 | Mahdi Samii | 1964 | 1969 | Hassan-Ali Mansur |
| 4 | Khodadad Farmanfarmaian | 1969 | 1970 | Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |
| (3) | Mahdi Samii | 1970 | 1971 | |
| 5 | Abdol-Ali Jahanshahi | 1971 | 1973 | |
| 6 | Mohammad Yeganeh | 1973 | 1975 | |
| 7 | Hassan Ali Mehran | 1975 | 1978 | |
| 8 | Yousef Khoshkish | 1978 | 1979 | Jamshid Amouzegar |
| 9 | Mohammad-Ali Molavi | 1979 | Mehdi Bazargan | |
| 10 | Alireza Nobari | 1979 | 1981 | Abolhassan Banisadr |
| 11 | Mohsen Nourbakhsh | 1981 | 1986 | Mir-Hossein Mousavi |
| 12 | Majid Ghassemi | 1986 | 1989 | |
| 13 | Mohammad Hossein Adeli | 1989 | 1994 | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani |
| (11) | Mohsen Nourbakhsh | 1994 | 2003 | |
| Mohammad Khatami | ||||
| – | Mohammad-Javad Vahaji (acting) | 2003 | ||
| 14 | Ebrahim Sheibani | 2003 | 2007 | |
| 15 | Tahmasb Mazaheri | 2007 | 2008 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad |
| 16 | Mahmoud Bahmani | 2008 | 2013 | |
| 17 | Valiollah Seif | 2013 | 2018 | Hassan Rouhani |
| 18 | Abdonnaser Hemmati | 2018 | 2021 | |
| 19 | Akbar Komijani | 2021 | 2021 | |
| 20 | Ali Salehabadi | 2021 | 2022 | Ebrahim Raisi |
| 21 | Mohammad-Reza Farzin | 2022 | incumbent | |