The International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA) is a private, non-profit, and non-political organization of scholars interested in the study of economic issues concerning Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

, in the broadest sense of the term.

The objectives of the IIEA are:

1. Promotion of high standard economic scholarship and research on Iran’s economy
   Economy of Iran
   The economy of Iran is the eighteenth largest in the world by purchasing power parity and according to Iranian officials' claims is going to become the 12th largest by 2015. The economy of Iran is a mixed and transition economy with a large public sector and some 50% of the economy centrally planned...
   
   
2. Promotion of cooperation among persons and organizations committed to the objectives of IIEA
3. Facilitation of communication among scholars through its webpage, meetings and publications
4. Promotion of better understanding of Iran’s economic policy challenges and opportunities.

Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee of the "International Iranian Economic Association" (IIEA) consists of:

Name	Title	Affiliation
Hassan Hakimian	Director, London Middle East Institute, and Reader in Economics	SOAS, University of London University of London -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
Massoud Karshenas	Professor of Economics	SOAS, University of London University of London -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
Hashem Pesaran	Professor of Economics	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...  and USC University of Southern California The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
Hadi Salehi Esfahani	Professor of Economics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Dr. Djavad Salehi-Isfahani is a professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, and a visiting fellow at the Middle East Youth Initiative at the housed in the program at the Brookings Institution. His expertise and research focus is in economics, demographic economics, energy economics, and the...	Professor of Economics	Virginia Tech

Founding Members

Founding members of the IIEA are:

Name	Title	Affiliation
Parvin Alizadeh	Principal Lecturer in Economics	London Metropolitan University London Metropolitan University London Metropolitan University , located in London, England, was formed on 1 August 2002 by the amalgamation of the University of North London and the London Guildhall University . The University has campuses in the City of London and in the London Borough of Islington.The University operates its...
Jahangir Amuzegar Jahangir Amuzegar Jahangir Amuzegar is a distinguished Iranian economist, academic and politician.An economist by training, Amuzegar served as Minister of Commerce and Minister of Finance of Iran. He also acted as executive director of International Monetary Fund. Amouzegar hold a bachelor degree in economy from...	International Economic Consultant
Mehdi Asali	Energy Economist	OPEC OPEC OPEC is an intergovernmental organization of twelve developing countries made up of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. OPEC has maintained its headquarters in Vienna since 1965, and hosts regular meetings...  Secretariat, Vienna and International Institute for Energy Studies (IIES), Tehran
Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee	Wilmeth Professor and UWM Distinguished Professor in Economics	University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Sohrab Behdad	Professor and John E. Harris Chair in Economics	Denison University Denison University Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital...
Gholamali Farjadi	Labour Economist	Managing Director, Taban Kherad Consulting, Tehran
Hossein Farzin	Professor of Economics	University of California-Davis
Fereidun Fesharaki	Chairman and CEO	FACTS Global Energy
Firouz Gahvari	Leiby Hall Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
Nader Habibi	Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East	Brandeis University Brandeis University Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
Hassan Hakimian	Director, London Middle East Institute, and Reader in Economics	SOAS, University of London University of London -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
Ahmad Reza Jalali Naini	Chairman, Department of Economics	Institute for Research in Planning & Management, Tehran
Massoud Karshenas	Professor of Economics	SOAS, University of London University of London -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
Esfandiar Maasoumi Esfandiar Maasoumi Esfandiar Maasoumi is an econometrician. He is currently professor at Emory University. He received his PhD from LSE in 1977. He is fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.- Publications :...	Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics	Emory University Emory University Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
Fatemeh Moghadam	Professor of Economics	Hofstra University Hofstra University Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York, United States, about east of New York City: less than an hour away by train or car...
Hamid Mohtadi	Professor of Economics	University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Farhad Nomani	Professor of Economics	American University of Paris American University of Paris The American University of Paris is a private, independent, and accredited liberal arts and sciences university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe...
Vahid Nowshirvani	Emeritus Professor of Economics	Columbia University Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
Jamshid Pazhooyan	Professor of Economics	Allameh Tabatabaie University
Hashem Pesaran	Professor of Economics	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...  and USC USC -Education:* University of South Carolina , for which the acronym is a registered trademark...
Hadi Salehi Esfahani	Professor of Economics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Djavad Salehi-Isfahani Dr. Djavad Salehi-Isfahani is a professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, and a visiting fellow at the Middle East Youth Initiative at the housed in the program at the Brookings Institution. His expertise and research focus is in economics, demographic economics, energy economics, and the...	Professor of Economics	Virginia Tech
Hossein Samiei	Mission Chief for Portugal	International Monetary Fund International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
Gholam Reza Soltani	Professor of Economics	Department of Agricultural Economics, Shiraz University Shiraz University Shiraz University , formerly known as Pahlavi University, is a public university located in Shiraz, Iran. It is one of the major universities of Iran....
Mohammad Tabibian Mohammad Tabibian Seyed Mohammad Tabibian is an Iranian economist 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 High Institute of Plan and Development Research in Tehran as of early 1990s...	Emeritus Professor of Economics	Emeritus Professor, Former Director of The School of Banking, Tehran Tehran Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...