Ali Akbar Salehi

Ali Akbar Salehi
Salehi in 2021
6th Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
In office 16 August 2013 – 29 August 2021
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Fereydoon Abbasi
Succeeded by	Mohammad Eslami
In office 16 July 2009 – 13 December 2010
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Gholam Reza Aghazadeh
Succeeded by	Mohammad Ahmadian (acting)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran
In office 30 January 2011 – 15 August 2013 Acting: 13 December 2010 – 30 January 2011
President	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded by	Manouchehr Mottaki
Succeeded by	Mohammad Javad Zarif
Personal details
Born	(1949-03-24) 24 March 1949 (age 75) Karbala, Iraq
Nationality	Iranian
Spouse	Zahra Rada[1]
Children	3[2]
Awards	Order of Courage (1st class)[3] Order of Service (2nd class)[4]
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Academic background and work
Fields	Nuclear engineering Nuclear physics
Alma mater	American University of Beirut Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Resonance Region Neutronics of Unit Cells in Fast and Thermal Reactors (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Michael J. Driscoll
Institutions	Sharif University of Technology Imam Khomeini International University

Ali Akbar Salehi (Persian: علی‌اکبر صالحی, English pronunciation^ⓘ; born 24 March 1949) is an Iranian academic, diplomat and former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, who served in this position from 2009 to 2010 and also from 2013 to 2021. He served for the first time as head of the AEOI from 2009 to 2010 and was appointed to the post for a second time on 16 August 2013. Before the appointment of his latter position, he was foreign affairs minister from 2010 to 2013. He was also the Iranian representative in the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1998 to 2003.