Bijan Namdar Zangeneh

Bijan Namdar Zangeneh (; born 21 September 1952) is an Iranian politician, who served as minister, at different cabinets after the Islamic Revolution, for 30 years. He lately served as Minister of Petroleum from 2013 to 2021 in the cabinet led by Hassan Rouhani.

Zangeneh is under US sanctions.

Early life and education Zangeneh was born to a Kurdish family in Kermanshah in 1952. He spent his early school years in his hometown before moving to Tehran, where he received his high school diploma. He received his MSc in civil engineering from the University of Tehran in 1977 and then became a Civil Engineering professor at K. N. Toosi University of Technology until his retirement in 2006.

Career and activities Namdar Zanganeh (right) as minister of energy with Ali Khamenei, visiting Karkheh Dam, 14 March 1997. Following the 1979 revolution, Zangeneh was appointed deputy for the minister of culture and Islamic guidance in 1980. In 1983, he was made minister of construction jihad. and made massive efforts for reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country's water and electricity industry in the aftermath of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and the damages caused to the industry in the Iraqi attacks. He was the minister of petroleum in Mohammad Khatami's cabinet. On 21 August Zanganeh was named as the head of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) for 2013. Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh was appointed Zangeneh's deputy on 3 September.

International sanctions Zangeneh was sanctioned by the US Department of Treasury. The sanction was part of a wider effort by the US government to sanction industries and sectors of the Iranian economy that are used to provide financial support to terrorism.