Mohammad-Reza Aref

Mohammad-Reza Aref
Mohammad Reza Aref
محمدرضا عارف
Mohammad-Reza Aref (right)
First Vice President of Iran
In office
11 September 2001 – 11 September 2005
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Hassan Habibi
Succeeded by Parviz Davoodi
Minister of Technology
In office
19 August 1997 – 20 August 2001
President Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by Mohammad Gharazi
Succeeded by Ahmad Motamedi
Personal details
Born 15 September 1951 (1951-09-15) (age 60)
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, 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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Political offices
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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