Background
Majid Ghassemi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1952.
Chief Executive Officer of Bank Pasargad
Majid Ghassemi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1952.
He attended Dar ul-Funun high school with a concentration on mathematics and received his bachelor"s degree from Allameh Tabataba"i University in Business Management.
Ghassemi originally established his reputation as the governor of Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from 1986 to 1989. He is also graduated from University of Southampton, UK with a master"s of Economics and a Doctor of Philosophy. degree in the same concentration. After winning the Central Bank"s scholarship Ghassemi started working in Central Bank.
In 1985 during the Iran-Iraq War, he was chosen as Chief Executive Officer of Bank Melli Iran.
A year later he was elected as the governor of Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran and was in office until 1989. He then took positions in Iranian Ministry of Industries and Mines as the minister"s deputy and Chief Executive Officer of several affiliate companies active in steel industries and mining.
In 2005, Ghassmi established Bank Pasargad as the Iran"s fifth private bank after Islamic Revolution. Presently, he is the Chief Executive Officer and vice chairman of Bank Pasargad and a board member in some of the bank"s affiliates.