Seyed Mohammad Tabibian ( fa, سید محمد طبیبیان; born 1948) is an Iranian

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

who served under the administration of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as deputy director of the Planning and Budget Organization. He left to help found the Institute for Management and Planning studies in Tehran as of the early 1990s. He has also taught at the

Isfahan University of Technology Isfahan university of technology (IUT) ( fa, دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان) ''Dāneshgāh-e San'ati-ye Esfahān'') is one of the pioneers among Iran's public universities and is located near the city of Isfahan, Isfahan province. IUT has ...

. Tabibian was head of groups made First Five Year Plan (1989–1993) and Second Five Year Plan of Iran (1994–1998). Tabibian received his Bachelor and master's degree from Pahlavi University (now

Shiraz University Shiraz University ( fa, دانشگاه شیراز ''Dāneshgāh-e-Shirāz'', formerly known as Pahlavi University دانشگاه پهلوی ''Dāneshgāh-e Pahlavi'') is a public university located in Shiraz, Fars, Iran, established in 1946. ...

). He studied at the Duke University, in the United States. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1980. When the revolution started he returned to Iran and served as director of the Planning and Budget Organization's Macro Economy Bureau from 1981 to 1983, at the beginning of the

Iranian Revolution The Iranian Revolution ( fa, انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân, ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( fa, انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dyna ...

. He has been called "Iran's foremost

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and ... one of the country's most important

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s."“Letter from Tehran, The Rationalist”
Laura Secor, ''The New Yorker'', February 2, 2009, p. 31 Mohammad Tabibian, was a faculty member at the College of Industrial Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology from 1981-1988. Spent a year at the Department of Economics, Stanford University as a visiting scholar. He was invited to the planning and budget organization after the Iran-Iraq war to help draft a reconstruction and economic reform plan in 1989. He helped establish a research and graduate training institute called Institute for Research on Development and Planning(currently Institute for Management and Planning), where he served as a director and faculty member. From 2004 to 2007 he was the director of Iran Banking Institute, a higher education institute under the Central Bank of Iran. He was retired in 2007 alongside many other reform-minded scholars by Ahmadi Nejad administration. He has authored several text books on Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics in Persian. He has written extensively on economic policy issues in Iran and co-authored books on the Iranian economy and the banking sector. He helped educate several generation of Iranian economists who are currently engaged in academics or private and public sector both in Iran and abroad.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tabibian, Seyed Mohammad Iranian economists Iranian reformists 1948 births Living people Academic staff of Isfahan University of Technology