Farhad Daneshjoo

Farhad Daneshjoo (Persian: فرهاد دانشجو‎) (born 4 March 1955 in Damghan) is an Iranian academic and the former president of the Azad University, which was elected for this position on 17 January 2012 and removed from his office by the university's central committee on 18 September 2013.[1] He is said to have been a student of PhD in England at the time of Ayatollah Khomeini's Fatwa on Salman Rushdie's death sentence. He was expelled from England as one of the students burning a bookshop selling Rushdie's books. He was president of the Tarbiat Modares University for eight years. He is one of the three brothers of Daneshjoo. His elder brother, Kamran Daneshjoo was the Minister of Science in the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Khosro Daneshjoo was a member of City Council of Tehran. His sister, Parisa Daneshjoo is also an academic.

Farhad Daneshjoo
Born	March 4, 1955 Damghan, Iran

Education

BSc : Civil Engineering, Queen Mary College, London, UK, 1985
MSc : Information System Engineering, South Bank University, London, UK, 1986
PhD : Simulation of Earthquakes, University of Westminster, UK, 1991

See also

• Higher education in Iran
• Islamic Azad University

References

1. "شورای عالی انقلاب فرهنگی ریاست فرهاد دانشجو بر دانشگاه آزاد را تأیید کرد". BBC Persian. 17 January 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2012.