Mohammad-Ali Najafi

Mohammad-Ali Najafi
Mohammad-Ali Najafi
محمدعلی نجفی
Mayor of Tehran
	In office; 27 August 2017 – 10 April 2018
Preceded by	Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
Succeeded by	Mohammad-Ali Afshani
Minister of Science
	In office; 20 August 2014 – 26 November 2014; Acting
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Reza Farajidana
Succeeded by	Mohammad Farhadi
	In office; 17 August 1981 – 14 August 1984
President	Mohammad-Ali Rajai; Ali Khamenei
Prime Minister	Mohammad-Javad Bahonar; Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani (acting); Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Hassan Arefi
Succeeded by	Iradj Fazel
Vice President of Iran; Head of Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization
	In office; 19 August 2013 – 30 January 2014
President	Hassan Rouhani
Preceded by	Mohammed Sharif Malekzadeh
Succeeded by	Masoud Soltanifar
Member of City Council of Tehran
	In office; 29 April 2007 – 18 August 2013
Succeeded by	Abdolmoghim Nasehi
Majority	202,700 (12.24%)
Vice President of Iran; Head of Management and Planning Organization
	In office; 15 August 1997 – 2 December 2000
President	Mohammad Khatami
Preceded by	Hamid Mirzadeh
Succeeded by	Mohammad-Reza Aref
Minister of Education
	In office; 20 September 1988 – 20 August 1997
President	Ali Khamenei; Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Prime Minister	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Preceded by	Kazem Akrami
Succeeded by	Hossein Mozaffar
Personal details
Born	13 January 1952; Tehran, Iran
Party	Executives of Construction Party
Spouse(s)	Sarvar Tabeshian (m. 1976); Mitra Ostad (m. 2018; died 2019)
Children	Zahra
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sharif University of Technology
Signature
Website	Official website

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Mohammad-Ali Najafi (Persian: محمدعلی نجفی; born 13 January 1952) is an Iranian mathematician and reformist politician who was the Mayor of Tehran, serving in the post for eight months, until April 2018. He held cabinet portfolios during the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s. He is also a retired professor of mathematics at Sharif University of Technology.

In May 2019, Najafi was arrested for murdering his wife, he was later sentenced to the death penalty. Najafi was released following the "forgiveness" of his deceased wife's family.