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Strategic Council

The Strategic Council is the highest ranking position within the Thinktank governance hierarchy consisting of a handful of prestigious academic and political figures. The Council overviews the strategic direction of GPTT and provides long term policies and prospects framing the Thinktank’s daily activities.

Seyed M. Sadegh Emamian

Co-founder / Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology

Mohammad Qomi

Co-founder / Head of the Islamic Development Organization

Seyed Abbas Mousavi

Co-founder / President of Sharif University of Technology

Mohammad M. Nayebi

Former Member / Professor at Sharif University of Technology

Saeed Sohrabpour

Former President of Sharif University of Technology

Rouhollah Dehghani Firouzabadi

Chairman / Associate Professor at Sharif University of Technology / Former ​Deputy President for Science and Technology

Mostafa Zamanian

Assistant Professor at University of Tehran / ​Former Head of Presidential Center for Strategic Studies

Seyed Mohsen Dehnavi

Spokesperson for the Expediency Discernment Council

Hossein Afshin

Professor at Sharif University of Technology / Deputy President for Science and Technology

Ali Akbar Salehi

Former President of Sharif University of Technology / ​Former Minister of Foreign Affairs-Iran

Esmaeil Baghaei

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson