Hassan Ali Mehran
{{Short description|Iranian economist (born 1937)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
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| office = Minister of Economy and Finance
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| term_start = 1978
| term_end = 1979
| office1 = Governor of the Central Bank of Iran
| predecessor1 = Mohammad Yeganeh
| successor1 = Yousef Khoshkish
| term_start1 = 1975
| term_end1 = 1978
| office2 = Governor of the Central Bank of Aruba
| predecessor2 = Elias F. Mansur
| successor2 = A. J. T. Williams,
| term_start2 = January 1986
| term_end2 = March 1986
| predecessor3 = Robert Henriquez
| successor3 = Jeanette R Semeleer
| term_start3 = 2007
| term_end3 = 2008
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1937}}
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| alma_mater = University of Nottingham
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Hassan Ali Mehran ({{langx|fa|حسنعلی مهران}} born 1937) is an Iranian bureaucrat who was the governor of Central Bank between 1975 and 1978 and minister of economy and finance between 1978 and 1979 during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. He left Iran and settled in the USA.
Early life and education
Mehran was born in Tehran in 1937.{{cite web|title=Authors. Hassan Ali Mehran|url=https://nashreney.com/author-book/%D8%AD%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C-%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86/|website=Nashreney|access-date=4 March 2023|language=fa}} He completed his secondary education at Alborz High School. He obtained a degree in political science and economics from the University of Nottingham.
Career
Following his graduation Mehran taught at the University of Bristol for a short period. Then he worked at the International Monetary Fund and then returned to Iran. He was the deputy minister of economy between 1967 and 1975. He also served as the deputy head of the National Iranian Oil Company. In 1975 he was named as the governor of Central Bank, replacing Mohammad Yeganeh in the post.{{cite thesis|author=Ehsanee Ian Sadr|title=To whisper in the king's ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1432765052|isbn=978-1-303-30703-4|location=University of Maryland, College Park|id={{ProQuest|1432765052}}|pages=239–240|degree=PhD|year=2013}} He remained in office until 1978{{cite book|author=Mehrzad Boroujerdi|editor=Ramin Jahanbegloo|title=Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History|year=2020|page=121|publisher=Lexington Books|location=London|isbn=978-1-7936-0007-3|editor-link=Ramin Jahanbegloo|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8KgJEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121|chapter=Rethinking the Legacy of Intellectual-Statesmen in Iran}} when he was succeeded by Yousef Khoshkish in the post. Mehran was appointed minister of economy and finance in 1978 which he held until 1979.{{cite book|editor=Roham Alvandi|publisher=Gingko Library|year=2018|title=The Age of Aryamehr: Late Pahlavi Iran and Its Global Entanglements|isbn=978-1-909942-19-6|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jtyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT83|page=83
|location=London|author=Ramin Nassehi|chapter=Domesticating cold war economic ideas: The rise of Iranian developmentalism in the 1950s and 1960s}}
Mehran was the governor of the Central Bank of Aruba for two terms, in 1986 and between 2007 and 2008.
Personal life and work
Mehran and his wife left Iran following the regime change in 1979 and settled in the USA. In 2013 he published a book entitled The Goals and Policies of the Central Bank of Iran: 1960-1978.{{cite book|title=Book review|isbn=978-1588140937 |last1=حسنعلى |first1=مهران، |date=2013 |publisher=Ibex Publishers }}
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Category:20th-century Iranian economists
Category:21st-century Iranian male writers
Category:Economy ministers of Iran
Category:Exiles of the Iranian Revolution in the United States
Category:Finance ministers of Iran
Category:Governors of the Central Bank of Iran
Category:Directors of the National Iranian Oil Company
Category:International Monetary Fund people