Mohammad Tabibian

Who is 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. He has also taught at the Isfahan University of Technology. Tabibian was head of groups made First Five Year Plan and Second Five Year Plan of Iran.

Tabibian received his Bachelor and Master Degree from Pahlavi University. He studied at the University of North Carolina in the United States. He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1980. When the revolution started he returned to Iran and served as director of the Planning and Budget Organization's Macro Economy Bureau in 1981 at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution. He has been called "Iran's foremost free-market economist and ... one of the country's most important reformers."