Reza Moridi

The Honourable Reza Moridi MPP
Honourable Reza Moridi, Ontario's Minister of Research and Innovation; Ontario's Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities
Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Richmond Hill
Incumbent
Assumed office October 10, 2007
Preceded by	New riding
Personal details
Born	1945 (age 71–72) Urmia, West Azarbaijan, Iran
Political party	Liberal
Residence	Richmond Hill, Ontario
Profession	Physicist, Engineer

Reza Moridi (Persian: رضا مریدی) (born c. 1945) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2007 to represent the riding of Richmond Hill. He serves as a cabinet minister in the government of Kathleen Wynne. He is the first Iranian-Canadian elected to a provincial legislature in Canada.

Moridi was born in Urmia, capital of West Azerbaijan Province in northwest Iran. He grew up in Urmia, attended Alborz High School in Tehran and graduated from Tehran University with BSc and MSc degrees in Physics. He continued his education in the U.K. and obtained MTech and PhD degrees from Brunel University in London. For his contributions to physics and engineering, Moridi was elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology of the UK. In recognition of his contributions to the understanding of nuclear materials and radiation, the Canadian Nuclear Society presented him with the Education and Communication Award. Also, in recognition of his contributions to the profession of Health Physics, the Health Physics Society of the United States presented him with the Fellow Award.

Prior to entering into politics, he was a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist. He worked for 17 years at the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada where he was the Vice-President and Chief Scientist. He also worked in the electrical industry as an executive and in academia as a professor and administrator.