Jafar Towfighi
Jafar Towfighi Darian is an Iranian chemical engineer, academic, politician and senior consultant of ministry of science, research and technology who served as minister of science, research and technology for two terms. First in the cabinet headed by President Mohammad Khatami from 2003 till 2005, and second in 2013 as acting minister.
Towfighi was born in Tehran onMarch 1956. He holds a masters degree in chemical engineering, which he received from Shiraz University in 1981. Then he obtained a PhD again in chemical engineering from Bucharest Polytechnic Institute in Romania in 1986.
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