Mehdi Samii
Mehdi Samii | |
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Ambassador-at-large and Advisor to the Prime Minister for International Financing | |
In office 1971–1973 | |
Prime Minister | Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |
Governor of the Central Bank of Iran | |
In office 1970–1971 | |
Prime Minister | Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |
Preceded by | Khodadad Farmanfarmaian |
Succeeded by | Abdolali Jahanshahi |
In office 1964–1969 | |
Prime Minister | Hassan-Ali Mansur |
Deputy | Khodadad Farmanfarmaian |
Preceded by | Ali-Asghar Poorhomayoon |
Succeeded by | Khodadad Farmanfarmaian |
Head of Plan and Budget Organization of Iran | |
In office 1969–1970 | |
Prime Minister | Amir-Abbas Hoveyda |
Preceded by | Mohammad-Safi Asfia |
Succeeded by | Khodadad Farmanfarmaian |
Personal details | |
Born | Tehran, Qajar Iran | 24 June 1918
Died | 30 June 2010 Los Angeles, California, USA | (aged 92)
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Relatives | Fereydoun Mahdavi |
Mehdi Samii (Persian: مهدی سمیعی; 1918–2010) was an Iranian chartered accountant, banker and economist.[1] Samii is credited as "one of the chief architects of Iran's rapid economic and Industrial growth in the 1960s", as well as "a midwife of in the creation of the [Central] bank [of Iran]" and "more than anyone else responsible" for it.[1] According to Abbas Milani, "the fact that the bank was a relatively independent institution, free from corruption and political interference and unusually efficient", is attributed to his leadership.[1]
Biography
[edit]Samii was born in Tehran in 1910.[1][2] He held office as the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (1964–1969; 1970–1971), the head of Plan and Budget Organization of Iran (1969–1971) and Ambassador-at-large (1971–1973).[1] Before that, Samii rejected job offers for ministerial roles twice: Once in 1960 when Jafar Sharif-Emami offered him the role of the minister of agriculture and the next in the following year when Ali Amini proposed that he become minister of commerce.[1]
He was a co-founder of Iranian Institute of Certified Accountants.[1] He died in 2010.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Milani, Abbas (2008). Eminent Persians: The Men and Women who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979. Vol. 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. pp. 760–767. ISBN 978-0815609070.
- ^ a b Mehrzad Boroujerdi (2020). "Rethinking the Legacy of Intellectual-Statesmen in Iran". In Ramin Jahanbegloo (ed.). Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History. London: Lexington Books. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-7936-0007-3.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Mehdi Samii at Wikimedia Commons