Dr. Alireza Nasiri | |
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Alireza Nasiri as General Director of Planning and Development at Ministry of Cooperatives
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General Director of Planning and Development Ministry of Cooperatives | |
In office 2004–2005 |
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President | Mohammad Khatami |
General Director of Educational Support Department for Veteran Students University of Tehran | |
In office 1999–2002 |
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Acting General Manager of Public Relations University of Tehran | |
In office 1998–1999 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Iran |
21 March 1969
Nationality | Iranian |
Alma mater | Iran University of Science and Technology |
Occupation | Consultant |
Profession | Executive Industrial Management |
Alireza Nasiri (Persian: عليرضا نصيري; born 21 March 1968) is an Iranian academic, businessman and technocrat. Nasiri played a leading role in establishing online degree programs in Iran, founding the first online degree program in University of Tehran and projects on e-government in Iran. He is known as the father of commercial afforestation in Iran for starting a chain of commercial greenhouses to economically empower forest owners with genetically modified Paulownia trees. He was general director of planning and development in Iran's Ministry of Cooperatives between 2004 and 2005 while also serving as acting Vice Minister.
He was on the board of directors of National Industrial (Melli) Shoe Co. and Darya Bandar Shipping Lines Co., among several other companies in Iran. Between 2011 and 2013 he was an instructor at Missouri State University Dalian Campus[1] and published a study in the American Journal of Applied Sciences about the commercialization of e-learning in Iran.Nasiri is a senior business management and innovation lecturer at Global Institute of Management and Economics in DUFE.
He is currently on the board of directors of Aras GED which among other activities manages medium-sized commercial forests in Iran. Aras GED is also a consultant to large industrial companies on conducting business in Iran and the Middle East. The Tehran office of Aras GED Consulting is based out of the top floor of the SUNIR Co building in Taleghani Avenue adjacent to the former American Embassy in Tehran. In 2015 he supported investment and innovation in Iran's scientific fields as a means to create profitable business cycles in the Middle East. He also supported the cooperation of European companies with Iranian partners after the signing of the Iran nuclear deal.