Our Staff

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.

Saeed Sohrabpour

Co-founder / Former President of Sharif University of Technology

Ali Akbar Salehi

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

Mohammad Qomi

Co-founder / Head of the Islamic Tabligh Organization

Rouhollah Dehghani Firouzabadi

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

Seyed Abbas Mousavi

President of Sharif University of Technology

Hossein Afshin

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

Seyed Hamid Pourmohammadi

Deputy to the President / Head of Planning and Budgeting Organization

Esmaeil Baghaei

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson

Mostafa Zamanian

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

Seyed Mohsen Dehnavi

Assistant Professor at SBU /​Spokesperson for the Expediency Discernment Council

Seyed M. Sadegh Emamian

Co-founder / Professor at Amirkabir University of Technology

Mohammad M. Nayebi

Professor at Sharif University of Technology