Masoumeh Ebtekar

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Masoumeh Ebtekar (born September 21, 1960 in Tehran ) is an Iranian politician and immunologist. She has been Minister for Women and Family Affairs since 2017. From 1997 to 2005 she was Environment Minister (making it the first female cabinet member since the 1979 Iranian Revolution ), from 2007 to 2013 a member of the Tehran City Council, and from 2013 to 2017 again Environment Minister.

Origin, education and activist

Masoumeh Ebtekar was born in Tehran, the daughter of an academic, and spent six years of her childhood with her parents in Philadelphia, USA. She attended the international school in Tehran (Iranzamin) and in 1979 she joined an Islamist activist group that invoked the teachings of Ali Shariati . Since then she has been wearing a chador . Because of her good knowledge of English, she became the press spokeswoman for the students who carried out the hostage-taking of Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981 . The international press called her "Mary". She published an autobiographical report on this in 2000.

Career as an immunologist

She studied immunology at the Shahid Beheschti University and the Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran and, as an associate professor, published numerous articles there on cytokines , virus immunology, HIV vaccines , breast cancer and the like. a. On April 29, 2014, she was President of the 12th International Congress for Immunology, at which the Swiss Nobel Prize winner Rolf Zinkernagel also spoke.

Government offices

In 1997 Ebtekar became Vice President (Minister) for the Environment during the presidency of the reformer Mohammad Chātami . Along with Sarah Schojaei, she was the first female cabinet member since the Iranian Revolution in 1979. As chairman of the Iranian environmental agency, she carried out numerous structural reforms in the agency. On International Women's Day in March 2002, she spoke at an international congress of women environment ministers in Helsinki. With the election of Mahmud Ahmadineschād as president in 2005, she left the government and worked again as an immunologist and, since 2007, in the city council of Tehran. In 2013 she took over the office of Environment Minister again under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani . With numerous legislative initiatives, including the protection of wetlands and the expansion of solar energy, it supported the advanced Rohanis environmental program, which became internationally known in 2017 with a nationwide tree-planting campaign. An important topic of her term of office was the fight against the sometimes catastrophic air pollution in Tehran, Ahwas and other large cities. Her “18 degree challenge” was much discussed, in which she asked the residents of Tehran not to heat their apartments above 18 ° C in winter in order to reduce the air pollution. One of their successes is that Lake Hamun in Balochistan was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 2016 .

In March 2020 it was announced that Masoumeh Ebtekar was sick with COVID-19 .

Honors

  • In 2006 Masoumeh Ebtekar was declared one of the seven "Champions of the Year" by UNEP for her work against air pollution from the Iranian oil industry .
  • In 2014 Masoumeh Ebtekar won the Minerva Prize donated by Anna Maria Mammoliti for her reform policy .

Web links

Commons : Masoumeh Ebtekar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jane Janjigian: What next for 'Mary' of Tehran? Chicago Tribune, February 26, 1981, p. B4 (based on Wikipedia)
  2. ^ Mark Bowden: Guests of the Ayatollah. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006, p. 161 (based on Wikipedia)
  3. ↑ Masoumeh Ebtekar, Fred A. Reed: Takeover in Tehran: The Inside Story of the 1979 US Embassy Capture. Vancouver (Canada) 2000
  4. ↑ Scopus Preview: Author Details: Ebtekar, Massoumeh. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Persian Paradox: Twelfth Congress of immunology. Retrieved April 8, 2020 . (Ebtekar's own weblog)
  6. ↑ Elaine Sciolino: Persian Mirrors: the Elusive Face of Iran. Free Press, 2005, p. 116 (based on English Wikipedia)
  7. ↑ Inter Press Service March 9, 2002. Accessed April 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ IRNA March 5, 2017: President Rouhani urges protecting environment. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Lobe Log 7 March 2016: Iran's Struggle With Air Pollution. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  10. ^ Tehran Times April 3, 2016. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  11. ↑ The Times of Israel, March 11, 2020. Retrieved April 8, 2020 .
  12. ↑ UN News March 23, 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
  13. ↑ La Repubblica November 30, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ebtekar, Masoumeh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician and immunologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran