Mohammad Ganjidoost
Blog Contributor
Researcher, Institute for Political and International Studies, Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 
Mohammad Ganjidoost is a researcher on Political Issues at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) at the Ministry of Foreign Affaires, in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ganjidoost spent over two decades as an Iranian Ambassador, most recently as the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Pyongyang, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from 1997 - 2001.

Mr. Ganjidoost began his professional career as Charge d'affaire for the Iranian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1979 before spending 1982-85 as the Iranian Ambassador to Turkey (Ankara).

In 1985 he was named Director of the Department of Non-Arab Middle East Studies at the Institute for Political and International studies (IPIS) at the Iranian Foreign Affairs, where he worked until 1989 when he was named Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Mr. Ganjidoost returned to Iran in 1992 and served for five years as Director of the Deptartment of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) for Ministry of Foreign Affaires.

Ganjidoost has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University, U.S. (1977) and recently received a Ph.D in Strategic Management at The Higher Universitiy of National Defense in Tehran, Iran.