Hassan Ali Mehran

Hassan Ali Mehran
Minister of Economy and Finance
In office 1978–1979
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran
In office 1975–1978
Preceded by	Mohammad Yeganeh
Succeeded by	Yousef Khoshkish
Governor of the Central Bank of Aruba
In office January 1986 – March 1986
Preceded by	Elias F. Mansur
Succeeded by	A. J. T. Williams,
In office 2007–2008
Preceded by	Robert Henriquez
Succeeded by	Jeanette R Semeleer
Personal details
Born	1937 (age 86–87)
Alma mater	University of Nottingham

Hassan Ali Mehran (Persian: حسنعلی مهران‎ born 1937) is an Iranian bureaucrat who was the governor of Central Bank between 1975 and 1978 and minister of economy and finance between 1978 and 1979 during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He left Iran and settled in the USA.

Early life and education

Mehran was born in Tehran in 1937.^[1][2] He completed his secondary education at Alborz High School.^[2] He obtained a degree in political science and economics from the University of Nottingham.^[2]

Career

Following his graduation Mehran taught at the University of Bristol for a short period.^[2] Then he worked at the International Monetary Fund and then returned to Iran.^[2] He was the deputy minister of economy between 1967 and 1975.^[3] He also served as the deputy head of the National Iranian Oil Company.^[2] In 1975 he was named as the governor of Central Bank, replacing Mohammad Yeganeh in the post.^[3][4] He remained in office until 1978^[1] when he was succeeded by Yousef Khoshkish in the post.^[4] Mehran was appointed minister of economy and finance in 1978 which he held until 1979.^[1][3]

Mehran was the governor of the Central Bank of Aruba for two terms, in 1986 and between 2007 and 2008.^[5]

Personal life and work

Mehran and his wife left Iran following the regime change in 1979 and settled in the USA.^[2] In 2013 he published a book entitled The Goals and Policies of the Central Bank of Iran: 1960-1978.^[5]

References

1. Mehrzad Boroujerdi (2020). "Rethinking the Legacy of Intellectual-Statesmen in Iran". In Ramin Jahanbegloo (ed.). Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History. London: Lexington Books. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-7936-0007-3.
2. "Authors. Hassan Ali Mehran". Nashreney (in Persian). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
3. Ramin Nassehi (2018). "Domesticating cold war economic ideas: The rise of Iranian developmentalism in the 1950s and 1960s". In Roham Alvandi (ed.). The Age of Aryamehr: Late Pahlavi Iran and Its Global Entanglements. London: Gingko Library. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-909942-19-6.
4. Ehsanee Ian Sadr (2013). To whisper in the king's ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran (PhD thesis). University of Maryland, College Park. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-1-303-30703-4. ProQuest 1432765052.
5. "Book review". Amazon. Retrieved 4 March 2023.