BAGHER ASADI OF IRAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF SECOND COMMITTEE

9 September 1998

Press Release
BIO/3182
GA/EF/2813

BAGHER ASADI OF IRAN ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF SECOND COMMITTEE

19980909 Biographical Note Bagher Asadi, Ambassador in charge of economic and social affairs for the Permanent Mission of Iran to the United Nations, was this afternoon elected Chairman of the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) for the fifty-third session of the General Assembly.

Since his posting in New York in 1996, Mr. Asadi has actively participated in the work of various international forums and he is currently the Co-Chairman of the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests. He is also Vice-Chairman and Rapporteur of the Preparatory Committee for the five-year review of the 1995 World Summit for Social Development and the Chairman of the thirty-eighth session of the Committee for Programme and Coordination. From 1992 to 1996 Mr. Asadi was the Adviser to the Foreign Minister of Iran.

After beginning his diplomatic career in 1984 by joining the Foreign Ministry's Department of International Affairs, Mr. Asadi served as a member of the Iranian delegations to various international forums, including those to the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement. In 1988, he was appointed Chargé d'affaires of the Permanent Mission of Iran to the United Nations Office at Geneva, a post he held until 1990.

Mr. Asadi earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Teheran in 1974 and a Master of Arts degree in economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder, in 1982.

Born on 1 August 1951, Mr. Asadi is married and has two children.

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