Mohammad Reza Aref محمدرضا عارف |
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Mohammad-Reza Aref (right) | |
First Vice President of Iran | |
In office 11 September 2001 – 11 September 2005 |
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President | Mohammad Khatami |
Preceded by | Hassan Habibi |
Succeeded by | Parviz Davoodi |
Minister of Technology | |
In office 19 August 1997 – 20 August 2001 |
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President | Mohammad Khatami |
Preceded by | Mohammad Gharazi |
Succeeded by | Ahmad Motamedi |
Personal details | |
Born | 15 September 1951 Yazd, Iran |
Political party | Islamic Iran Participation Front |
Spouse(s) | Fatemeh Aref |
Profession | Electrical engineer |
Religion | Shia Islam |
Mohammad Reza Aref (Persian: محمدرضا عارف , PhD, born 1951 in Yazd) is an Iranian academic, electrical engineer and politician and a professor at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. From 2001 to 2005, he was the Vice President of Iran under President Mohammad Khatami. He was succeeded by Parviz Dawoodi.
Aref was a chancellor of the University of Tehran (1994–1997). From August 28, 1997 to June, 2000, he was the Minister of Post, Telegraph, and Telephone (PTT), a post that was later renamed to Minister of Communications and Information Technology.
He received the Bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Tehran University, and the Master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and communication engineering from Stanford University in 1975, 1976 and 1980, respectively. His PhD dissertation was on the information theory of networks, supervised by Prof. Thomas M. Cover. Until 1994, he was a faculty member of Isfahan University of Technology. As of 2004[update], he serves as a professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Sharif University of Technology. He offers courses on cryptography and coding theory.
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Preceded by Mohammad Gharazi |
Minister of Information and Communications Technology 1997-2001 |
Succeeded by Ahmad Motamedi |
Preceded by Hassan Habibi |
First Vice President of Iran 2001-2005 |
Succeeded by Parviz Davoodi |
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