Mahmoud Hojjati | |
Office: | Minister of Agriculture |
Term Start: | 15 August 2013 |
Term End: | 25 November 2019 |
President: | Hassan Rouhani |
Predecessor: | Sadeq Khalilian |
Successor: | Abbas Keshavarz (acting) |
Term Start1: | 14 January 2001 |
Term End1: | 24 August 2005 |
President1: | Mohammad Khatami |
Predecessor1: | Isa Kalantari (as Minister of Agriculture) Mohammad Saeedikia (as Minister of Jihad of Construction) |
Successor1: | Mohammad-Reza Eskandari |
Office2: | Minister of Roads and Transportation |
Term Start2: | 20 August 1997 |
Term End2: | 14 January 2001 |
President2: | Mohammad Khatami |
Predecessor2: | Akbar Torkan |
Successor2: | Rahman Dadman |
Birth Date: | 9 October 1955 |
Birth Place: | Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran |
Alma Mater: | Isfahan University of Technology |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Party: | Islamic Iran Participation Front |
Website: | Governmental website |
Native Name Lang: | fa |
Mahmoud Hojjati (Persian: محمود حجتی, born 9 October 1955[1]) is an Iranian politician and former Minister of Agriculture, a position he had held from January 2001 to August 2005, in the cabinet of Mohammad Khatami and again from August 2013 to November 2019 under Hassan Rouhani.[2] He was Minister of Roads and Transportation form 1997 to January 2001, in the first three years of President Khatami's first cabinet. He was governor of Sistan and Baluchestan Province from 1989 to 1994. He is also member of central committee of Islamic Iran Participation Front.[3]