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Three top nominees for economic ministries in cabinet lineup
Abdolnaser Hemmati, Mohsen Paknejad and Mohammad Atabak were included in the list for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, the Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, respectively.
Pezeshkian presented his cabinet’s lineup in a letter to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, with the legislative body officially commencing the process of reviewing the proposed ministers’ qualifications.
Among the proposed ministers is Hemmati for Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, an academic, politician and economist who served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) from 2018 to 2021.
Hemmati ran as a candidate in the 2021 Iranian presidential election, being the sole representative from the Moderate Front of Iranian politicians, and was placed third overall in the results.
Also, Paknejad has been nominated as Iran’s oil minister by the president.
Born in 1966 in the capital city of Tehran, Paknejad has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Tehran and holds a master’s degree in Industrial engineering from the AmirKabir University of Technology.
Paknejad served as deputy minister of oil for the supervision of hydrocarbon resources from 2018 to 2021.
From 2000 to 2007, Paknejad was also a member of the board of directors of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company. From 2005 to 2007, he was the Planning Manager of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company, and from then until 2013, he served as the Deputy Director of Integrated Planning at the National Iranian Oil Company, according to the Ministry of Oil’s Shana news network.
Proposed for the Industry, Mine and Trade Ministry, Atabak holds a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Michigan.
He has served as a member of the managing board of the Cement Association of Iran and Tehran Cement, as well as the advisory councils of the Industry Ministry and Parliament.
He is currently the CEO of Kaveh Pars Mineral Industries Development Holding. In addition, Atabak has conducted projects for hospitals and various cement and steel factories across the country.
The Iranian Parliament’s specialized committees started deliberations on Pezeshkian’s cabinet lineup as of Sunday afternoon in two work shifts during four days.
The proposed ministers were also slated to be discussed in the Parliament’s plenary sessions as of August 17.
Pezeshkian was elected as the new Iranian president in a runoff election on July 5 after late president Ebrahim Raisi lost his life in a tragic helicopter crash in May.