Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian

Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian (8 May 1928 – 16 December 2015) was the son of the Qajar Persian nobleman Abdol Hossein Mirza Farmanfarma and his wife Hamdam Khanoum. During the Pahlavi era, he held the post of governor of the Central Bank of Iran.

He was the chief architect of the 1960s Iranian economic boom. However, he often dismissed Mohammad Reza Shah as incompetent. He fled to London during the 1979 Iranian revolution.

He died of lung cancer at the age of 87 in London, United Kingdom, on 16 December 2015.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ "خداداد فرمانفرماییان، رئیس پیشین بانک مرکزی ایران درگذشت". BBC Persian. 16 December 2015.
  2. ^ Khodadad Farmanfarmaian

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