Hooshang Amirahmadi ( fa, هوشنگ امیراحمدی; born May 24, 1947) is an

Iranian American Iranian Americans are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship. Iranian Americans are among the most highly educated people in the United States. They have historically excelled in busin ...

academic and political analyst. Amirahmadi is a professor of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

. He has stepped forward as a candidate for Iranian presidential elections in 2005, 2013 and 2017.

Career

Amirahmadi is the founder and president of American–Iranian Council, holds a Ph.D. in planning and international development from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

and is a professor of the

Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy of Rutgers University (The Bloustein School) serves as a center for the theory and practice of urban planning, public policy and public health/health administration scholarship. The sc ...

at Rutgers University. He has served as director of Rutgers University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, as chair and graduate director of his department at the Bloustein School, and as the University Coordinator of the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship Program. Amirahmadi is also a founder of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis and served as its director for many years. Amirahmadi is also the president of Caspian Associates, Inc., an international strategic consulting firm headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey. Amirahmadi is a recognized expert on Iranian affairs, and has been called on to comment on this topic in national media.

Publications

Amirahmadi has published extensively on the topic of Middle-Eastern relations. He is the author of ''Revolution and Economic Transition: The Iranian Experience'', an analysis of post- revolutionary Iran, and the three other books in Persian on civil society, industrial policy, and geopolitics of energy. He is also editor of ten books on Iran and the Greater Middle East, and 16 conference proceedings on US-Iran relations.

Presidential candidacy

He registered as a candidate for President in the Ninth Presidential Election in Iran in June 2005. Amirahmadi was the presidential candidate of a reformist platform for the 2013 Iranian presidential elections. Amirahmadi supported normalizing Iranian relations with the US, and using the opportunity for economic development. He supports gender equality and female career advancement. If elected, Amirahmadi's administration would have supported creating a coalition government in Syria. On 21 May 2013, Iran's Guardian Council rejected him and many others from the list of approved candidates. He announced his candidacy for the presidency for the third time in the 2017 election. His third bid was also rejected and he was disqualified.

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References

External links

Campaign Site

Biography
at the Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School
Caspian Associates
{{DEFAULTSORT:Amirahmadi, Houshang University of Tabriz alumni 1947 births Living people Iranian people of Talysh descent Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni Iranian expatriate academics Rutgers University faculty Iranian emigrants to the United States