Davoud Danesh-Jafari

Davoud Danesh-Jafari
Member of Expediency Discernment Council
Assumed office
27 February 2007
Appointed byAli Khamenei
ChairmanAkbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Ali Movahedi-Kermani (Acting)
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Sadeq Larijani
Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance
In office
24 August 2005  2 April 2008
PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad
Preceded bySafdar Hosseini
Succeeded byHossein Samsami (Acting)
Shamseddin Hosseini
Member of the Parliament of Iran
In office
28 May 2004  12 August 2005
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
In office
28 May 1996  26 May 2000
ConstituencyTehran, Rey, Shemiranat and Eslamshahr
Personal details
Born1954 (age 7071)
Tehran, Iran
Political partySociety of Devotees of the Islamic Revolution
Other political
affiliations
Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (2004)
Alma materNIT Srinagar
University of Tehran
Allameh Tabataba'i University
Military service
Allegiance Iran
Branch/serviceJihad of Construction
Years of service1980–1988
CommandsHead of Combat engineering Logistics Headquarter
Battles/wars
Awards Fath Medal (1982)

Davoud Danesh-Jafari (Persian: داود دانش‌جعفری) (born 1954) is an Iranian politician, economist and former combat engineer who previously served as minister of economy and finance affairs of Iran from 2005 to 2008. He is currently a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.