Hamid Chitchian

Hamid Chitchian
Hamid Chitchian
	October 2014
Minister of Energy
	In office; 15 August 2013 – 20 August 2017
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Majid Namjoo
Succeeded by	Reza Ardakanian
Member of the Iranian Parliament
	In office; 28 May 1988 – 28 May 1992
Constituency	Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr
Majority	308,485 (40.10%)
Personal details
Born	Hamid Chitchian; 21 March 1957 (age 68); Tabriz, Iran
Political party	Independent
Alma mater	Amirkabir University of Technology; Tarbiat Modares University
Profession	Engineer
Military service
Allegiance	Iran
Branch/service	Revolutionary Guard
Years of service	1980–1988
Battles/wars	Iran–Iraq War

Hamid Chitchian (Persian: حمید چیت‌چیان, born 21 March 1957) is an Iranian politician and the former intelligence head. He had been energy minister of Iran from 15 August 2013 until 20 August 2017.^[2]

Early life

Chitchian was born in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan, around 1957.^[3]^[4]

Career

Chitchian joined the IRGC^[5] and is the former head of its intelligence unit in Tabriz.^[6] He is the former member of parliament, serving in the third term.^[5] He was appointed deputy energy minister for planning and economic affairs and senior advisor to the energy minister during the first term of the President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.^[5]At the same period he was a member of the managerial board of the Iran Power Generation Transmission and Distribution Management Company (TAVANIR) and the Energy Organization.^[5] He was also one of the senior advisors to Ahmedinejad.^[7]

He was nominated as energy minister by President Hassan Rouhani on 4 August 2013.^[5] On 15 August, he was appointed energy minister to the cabinet of Rouhani, receiving 272 votes in favor and seven votes against in the parliament.^[8] It was the second highest level of approval after that for Ali Tayebnia who was appointed economy minister.^[9] On 1 August 2017, Chitchian announced that he will leave energy ministry after the end of the first Rouhani government.