Hassan Ali Mehran ( fa, حسنعلی مهران‎ born 1937) is an Iranian bureaucrat who was the governor of

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between 1975 and 1978 and minister of economy and finance between 1978 and 1979 during the reign of

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ( fa, محمدرضا پهلوی, ; 26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), also known as Mohammad Reza Shah (), was the last ''Shah'' (King) of the Imperial State of Iran from 16 September 1941 until his overthrow in the Irani ...

. He left Iran and settled in the USA.

Early life and education

Mehran was born in Tehran in 1937. He completed his secondary education at Alborz High School. He obtained a degree in political science and economics from the

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Career

Following his graduation Mehran taught at the

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for a short period. Then he worked at the

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and then returned to Iran. He was the deputy minister of economy between 1967 and 1975. He also served as the deputy head of the

National Iranian Oil Company The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; fa, شرکت ملّی نفت ایران, Sherkat-e Melli-ye Naft-e Īrān) is a government-owned national oil and natural gas producer and distributor under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Ir ...

. In 1975 he was named as the governor of Central Bank, replacing

Mohammad Yeganeh Mohammed Yeganeh (5 May 1923 – 18 December 1995) was an Iranian economist who was the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran from 1973 to 1975. Yeganeh attended Tehran University from 1942 to 1946 obtaining a BA in Law and BA in Economics and t ...

in the post. He remained in office until 1978 when he was succeeded by Yousef Khoshkish in the post. Mehran was appointed minister of economy and finance in 1978 which he held until 1979. Mehran was the governor of the Central Bank of Aruba for two terms, in 1986 and between 2007 and 2008.

Personal life and work

Mehran and his wife left Iran following the regime change in 1979 and settled in the USA. In 2013 he published a book entitled ''The Goals and Policies of the Central Bank of Iran: 1960-1978''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mehran, Hassan Ali 20th-century Iranian economists 21st-century Iranian writers 1937 births Living people Economy ministers Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United States Finance ministers of Iran Governors of the Central Bank of Iran Directors of the National Iranian Oil Company International Monetary Fund people Alumni of the University of Nottingham Alborz High School alumni