Mohammad Javad Iravani

Mohammad Javad Iravani
Member of the Expediency Discernment Council
Incumbent
Assumed office 2005
Supreme Leader	Ali Khamenei Mojtaba Khamenei
Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance
In office 1986–1989
Prime Minister	Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Personal details
Born	1953 (age 72–73) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Occupation	Economist, academic, politician

Mohammad Javad Iravani (born 1953) is an Iranian economist, academic, and politician who has served as the 4th minister of Economic Affairs and Finance from 1986 to 1989 under the premiership of Mir-Hossein Mousavi. He has been a member of the Expediency Discernment Council since 2005 and deputy of Supervision and Auditing in the Supreme Leader's Office since 2005.

Early life and education

Iravani studied at the Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, where he completed his PhD in management and economics. Iravani's early life is not widely documented. Before entering politics, he served as assistant professor of Economics at the University of Tehran.

Career

Iravani began his professional career in 1979 at Davati Trading Company. In the same year, he joined Bank Mellat as head of one of the bank's foreign exchange branches. From 1979 to 1980, he served as head of Foreign Exchange Affairs for Bank Mellat branches and was responsible for matters relating to the integration of the international operations. Between 1980 and 1981, he served as deputy director-general of International Affairs at Bank Mellat. From 1981 to 1984, he was a member of the bank's board of directors.

In 1984, Iravani became a member of the board of directors of the Chemical Materials Supply and Distribution Center, affiliated with the Ministry of Commerce and between 1984 and 1985 served as chairman of the Board and Managing Director of the Paper and Wood Supply and Distribution Center under the same ministry.

During the second cabinet of prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iravani served as minister of Economic Affairs and Finance from 1986 to 1989. He subsequently served as chairperson of the Economic Commission, the Foreign Exchange Allocation Committee, and a member of the Supreme Economic Council.

Following his ministerial tenure, he served as deputy minister of Construction Jihad (Jihad-e Sazandegi) from 1989 to 1997. Between 1997 and 2007, he was appointed head of the Execution of Imam Khomeini's Order, an Iranian organization responsible for managing assets and charitable initiatives.

He later held the position of deputy for Supervision and Auditing in the Office of the Supreme Leader and became a member of the Expediency Discernment Council in 2005, a body tasked with advising the supreme leader and resolving legislative disputes.

Publications

• منوریان, عباس; ابویی اردکان, محمد; ایروانی, محمدجواد; زندی منش, محمدرضا. "Designing a policy making model to improve the business environment of IRAN , A grounded theory". فصلنامه علمی-پژوهشی مدیریت دولتی (in Persian). 5 (2). دانشکده مدیریت دانشگاه تهران. doi:10.22059/jipa.2013.36746.
• Iravani, Mohammad Javad; Ghazali, Amin (2014-08-23). "Identifying and Ranking of the Effective Factors on Banking System Policymakers Preference to Offer Variety of Facilities to Applicants (Hybrid Approach)". The Journal of Economic Studies and Policies. 1 (1). Mofid University: 205–226. ISSN 2423-4648. Retrieved 2026-06-13.
• سیدجوادین, سیدرضا; صفری, محمد; راعی, رضا; ایروانی, محمد جواد. "A Conceptual Model to Explain the Readiness of Iranian Commercial Banks towards Islamic Banking Implementation: Using Grounded Theory Strategy". فصلنامه علمی-پژوهشی مدیریت بازرگانی (in Persian). 9 (1). دانشکده مدیریت دانشگاه تهران. doi:10.22059/jibm.2017.51877.