Education
Shahid Beheshti University.
Shahid Beheshti University.
Back in 1997, he had been the Deputy Minister of Post, Telegraph & Telephone (Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs & Telephones, France) for Development & Planning, a ministry later renamed to Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Also He was the secretary of the Supreme Council of Information and communications technology of Iran and President Mohammad Khatami"s advisor and special envoy for Information and communications technology affairs He led the team for planning and implementing Takfa (similar to a "national Information and communications technology agenda" in some other countries), the first Iranian comprehensive countrywide plan for Information and communications technology . He received his bachelor"s degree in computer engineering from Shahid Beheshti University and from Amirkabir University of Technology, he earned his master"s degree in system engineering.
Jahangard was among the leaders for the National Commission of Information Society and helped the Iranian delegation to take part in World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) (Geneva 2003 and Tunis 2005).
He was elected as the Manitoba of Information Technology in Iran in March 2005 by CCW Magazine.
He is a founding member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and is member of its political office.