:

Date of Birth: 18 Jan. 1955 Nationality: Iranian

Civil Status: Married to Zahra Behfar

Daughters: Nadia borne 1983 , Diana borne 1985

Son : Reza borne 1986

Residence: Takesh Complex ,Golestan Avenue

Tehran - Iran

Tels: Coordinating Office in Iran : + 98-22792403

Tbilisi,Georgia :+ 995557759259

Mobile : + 98912 □□□□□28

Private : +9821□□□□□308

Fax: 00995557759260

Emails: president@nwiu.education

gh-mzh@doctor.com

Postal Address : P.O.Box : 16765-1381

Tehran – Iran

■ D.Ed., Jewelry Science and Technology

University of Northwest , USA , 2014

■ PH.D., Education

Gordon University ,USA ,2007

■ M.Sc., Engineering Systems Management

University of Northwest , USA ,1999

■ B.Sc., Mining Engineering- Shahroud University (First rank) ,Iran ,in collaboration with

Gordon University,1985

Web Page : www.nwiu.education

● Planning Technical and Vocational Education and Training Systems

● Planning Human Resourses Development Systems

● Applying Psycho-Cybernatics in Educational Institutions

● Analysis, Conceptual Planning, Organization, Administration of TVET Systems

● Management and Evaluation of Educational Systems

● Training of special target groups (like Tecnical and Vocational Education instructors,

School managers and micro / meso level planner experts

● Quality Control and Re- engineering of Educational Managements Systems

Exemplary skills in reading, analysis, research, critical thinking, and writing, giving me the optimal tools

to make further advances in the field. -Strong oral communicator and lecturer in the classroom, and

effective written communicator to students and other staff members. -Excellent coaching, teaching, and

motivational skills when working with individual students and encouraging them to work to their

potential. -Friendly and personable, making interactions with students and colleagues pleasant even

when discussing ways students should improve. -Solid ability to stay organized and on top of important

deadlines when teaching a full load of classes each semester.

A- Management

● Chancellor, Northwest International University (Jan.2018- present )

● Rector , University of Applied Science and Technology,College of Gold Jewelry Arts and

Technolog,affiliated to Ministry of Industry, Mines and Commerce as well as Director of Higher

education and university group of Gold - Jewelry Arts and Technology

University of Applied Science and Technology

Tehran, Iran ,2012-2016, Tehran , Iran

● President , Iran Jewelry Promotion Institute,2000-2010

B - Planning

● Senior Expert Planner to the Ministry of Education ,Bureau of Technical and Vocational

Education Tehran ,Iran

● Senior Expert Planner to the University of Applied Science and Technology ,

Bureau of Curriculum development,Tehran , Iran

● Senior Expert Planner to Gold and Jewelry Union, Tehran ,Iran

C - Teaching

C - 1 Educational Area

Teaching several courses at graduate and undergrade levels such as Technical and

Vocational Education Re-Enginnering, Technical and Vocational Education,Total Quality

Management in Educational Institutions,Professional Ethics ,Accreditatation of Paterns

and curriculum development methods, Concepts and fundamentals of systematic thinking

in Education.

C - 2 Gold and Jewelry Arts and Technology

Teaching several courses at graduate and undergrade levels such as History Of Gold and

Jewelry Arts and Industry in Iran, Introdution to Gold and Jewelry Industry,Jewelry Concepts

and Technology,Manufacturing Techniques in Jewelry Making , History of Jewelry

Design ,Applied Management in Gold and Jewelry Industry , Human and Adornments,Safety

and Hygiene in Gold and Jewelry Industry,

D - Research Experience

A - University of Applied Science and Technology,

● Exploring primary source research at numerous archives in connection with gold and jewelry

industry in many world countries in collaboration with my students

● Research on university programs and sylabuses of jewely related courses for bench marking

and compilining the first Iranian University programs and sylabuses in mentioned area.

B - Ministry of Education

● Field study over about analysis of more than twenty Jewelry occupations , jobs,tasks and

duties in Tehran Jewelry workshops for utilizing in university curriculum development

● Field study over Germany Education Dual System in the field of Technical and Vocationa

Education and Training

A : In - Country Courses ● Advanced Educational Technology Course Kerman Province Ministry of Education,1983 ● Fundamental of Management Islamic Azad University – Tehran1985 ● Industrial Hydraulic and Pneumatics,P-12 seminar Festo Didactic Agency in Tehran, 1985 ● Standard Concepts and Quality Control Iran Standard and Industrial Research Institute ,Karaj city, 1986 ● Evaluation of TVET textbooks, Ministry of Education, Tehran,1987 ● ICT Training Course, Ministry of Education-Tehran1996 ● Management Implementation of Curriculum Colombo Plan Staff CollegeTehran ,Iran 1987 ● Modular system of Education Colombo Plan Staff College, Tehran-Iran,1993 ● Use of Renewable Sources of Energy ISESCO-Morocco , Conducted in Tehran ,1998 ● Total Quality Management Colombo Plan Staff College-Tehran-Iran,2000

B : International Courses

● Micro level planning of for TVET management Colombo Plan Staff College – Singapore,1986 ● Research in System Evaluation and Development Colombo Plan Staff College-Manila, Philippines ,1990 ● Entrepreneurship Development Colombo Plan Staff College ,Manila, Philippines, 1999 ● Technical & Vocational Training Course INWENT, GTZ – Hamburg - Germany,2003

● Business Process Reengineeing Seoul Institute of Advanced Technology ,"SIVAT" Incheoun,Seoul, Republic of South Korea,2004

● Iran and Europe TVET cooperation Committee Technical and Vocational Training Organization (TVTO) Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Tehran ,Iran ● Asia - Pacific Accreditation and Certification Commission "APACC " ● Technical and Vocational Education Strategic Planning Committe Bureau of Technical and Vocational Education ,Ministry of Education Tehran , Iran ● International Cooperation Committee for Technical and Vocational Education , Ministry of Education, Tehran, Iran ● Head and member of Department of Research and Development " R&D "

Gold and Jewelry Union, Tehran, Iran

● Head and Faculty member of Iran Jewelry Promotion Institution ● Head and member of Department of In - Plant Education Bureau of Technical and Vocational Education, Ministry of Education, Tehran ,Iran

● Head and member of Mining Education Department, Bureau of Technical and Vocational Education, Ministry of Education, Tehran ,Iran ● National coordinator of Bureau of TVET in Ministry of Education of Iran to Inter- Governmental International – Organization Colombo Plan Staff College for Technician Education for Human Resources Development in Asia and the Pacific Ocean Region ● Representative and member of Scientific Evaluation Committee in Iran to th University of

Aberdeen International

● Member of Scientific Evaluation Committee in Iran , University of Northwest

● International Vocational Educationa and training Association, IVETA

A - Books

1- Safety in Mining Formal textbooks of Ministry of Education for mining technical high schools , registered code number 820 Iran Printing and Publishing Company, 1989

2- Mineral Dressing

Formal textbook of Ministry of Education for mining technical high

schools , registered code number 821 Iran Printing and Publishing Company,1991

3- Material Science ( Volume 2), Formal textbook of Ministry of Education registered code number 474/3 , Iran Printing and Publishing Company, 1998

4- Treasure of gold and jewelry educational questions

Formal book of Tehran Gold and Jewelry Union for competency examinations of goldsmiths and Jewelry producers Published byTehran Gold and Jewelry Union, 1996

5- Ore Processing

Formal textbook of Ministry of Education for mining technical high schools , registered code number 492/2 Iran Printing and Publishing Company , 2001

6- Knowleg of mine air

Complementary textbook, for mining technical high schools Published by Bureau of Technical Education. Ministry of Education,

Tehran, Iran 1976 7- Creative Self –Employer In collaboration with Professor Dr. Davood Fadaei ,Approved by University of Steinbeis ,Berlin Germany,1981

B - University educational pamphlets ● Environmental Changes in technical and vocational Education ● Fundamentals of precious metals melting ● Precious metals milling ● Precious metals casting ● Precious metals soldering and welding ● Introduction to gold and jewelry industry ● Human and ornaments ● History of Jewelry design ● Jewelry Concepts and Technology

● History Of Gold and Jewelry Arts and Industry in Iran,

● Manufacturing Techniques in jewelry making ,

● Applied Management in Gold and Jewelry Industry

● Hygiene in Gold and Jewelry Industry

● Professional Ethics ●Technical and Vocational Education Re-engineering

C- Essays: More than 40 scientific, cultural, educational essays that most of them have been published in Iran.

12 articles in the field of Technical and Vocational Education

Technical theme papers

50 theme papers in the field of gold and jewelry arts and technology

Selected subjects :

Essays about Gold and Jewelry art and indusry printed in the widely circulated

newspaper and jounals in Iran

● Spheres and bottlenecks of developing education and research of gold-jewelry industry

Ettelaat newspaper , September 1991

● Leadership of gold –jewelry industry in the field of Education and research

Hamshahri newspaper,January 1998

Utilizing Internet in the global trade of gold-jewelry

Iran newspaper, Febraury,1998 ● Gold-jewelry making, the missing loop in the handicrafts of Iran

Iran newspaper , June 1999

● Education, the first prerequisity of developing gold

jewelry industry in Iran

Asr-e-Eghtesaad newspaper, January 2009

● Obstacles of development in Iran industry of gold – jewelry

Abrar-e-Eghtesaadi newspaper, July 1999

● Culture building the priority of development of gold-jewelry industry in Iran

Abrar-e-Eghtesaadi newspaper,December 2009

● Thinking ground in the contemporary jewelry industry

Asr-e-Eghtesad newspaper,December 2009

7- ● Requirements, barriers and management development strategies in the Iranian jewelry

8- industry,

9- Presented to Office of President of Islamic Republic of Iran and published by Cultural Tabnak

Website,November 2016 ● How to change the new cultures for the jewelry industry , Abrar-e-eghtesaadi newspaper December 2009 ● Knowledge and Application of Silver in the Fourth Year of 2011 Kouh Noor Magazine New Series -1 Investigating the role of jewelers in traditional societies and in the western world

Kuh-e Noor Jounal ,2008

Essays about social and cultural subjects

● Beyond the Engineering of Reforms in Education Hamshahri newspaper , July , 2002 ● The Necessity of Innovation in Technical and Vocational Education Programs Hamshahri newspaper ,December ,2000 ● The Place of Education in the Dialogue on Civilizations. Hamshahri Newspaper ,May,2000 ● Improving the quality of technical and vocational education through the accreditation process Professional Development Magazine 2, Winter 2005 ● The areas and challenges of the development of vocational education for girls Hamshahri newspaper, November , 2006 ● Perspective of printing industry in the New Educational System Journal of the Printing Industry, December, 1372 ● UNIVOC, International Technical and Vocational Training Program Hamshahri Newspaper ,November,2002 ● An attitude to Educational Technology, Motivations and Strategies Peyk-e- Torbat –Winter,1995 ● Preparing the family for an earthquake crisis Omid Kerman newespaper , December 2008 ● Future training programs for printing industry in technical and vocational high schools Printing Industry Magazine,1999

D - Presented articles and lectures at in-country conferences and seminars ● Ways to promote the culture of reading and book studiying among students, students and people

Conference on the Promotion of the Culture of Reading and book studiying

Coducted by Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, November 1996

● Attitudes to educational technology, motivations and strategies

New Thoughts Seminar on Educational Technology – 1998

.● The role of education in promoting the general knowledge of the community about the green space ,Green Space Seminar, coducted by Parks and Green Space Organization of the

Municipality of Tehran - July 1370 Tehran

● Role of education in creating change in the work culture

Work Development Seminar , conducted by Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs,

Tehran, Iran 1992

● The role of education and culture in the safety of the electric power industry and the prevention of

accidents

General Conference of the Electrical Industry, Ramsar,1993

● The place of technical and vocational training in employment of young generation

Youth Rights and Responsibilities Conference - High Council of Youth1992

● . Attitude towards the borders of the Islamic Republic of Iran and violation of their sovereignty

Through cultural invasion

The first Conference on the Scientific Review of the Importance of Borders - Ministry of Interior,

May 1996

●. Cultivation of mental brain virus ,N.F.A , in technical and vocational education

International Symposium on Technical and Vocational Education in the fall of 1990

●. Immunization of mine workshops against coal dust explosion

The first safety seminar in Iran's mines conducted by ministry of Mines and Metals ,Yazd city ,

May 1990

● Refractory metals and their use in contemporary Jewelry (Further Research)

Conference on the position of precious and semi- precious stones in Iran , conducted by - Cultural

Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Khorasan Razavi Province - May 2010

● Achievements of University of Applied Science and Technology in the field of planning of the higer

education of the Jewelry Industry

Seminar on the Position of Precious and Semi-Precious Stones in the Country conducted by

Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Khorasan Razavi Province – July 2002

● . Strategy of human resources education and development in the gemstone and semi- precious industry

The fourth gemstone conference and the first turquoise festival in Iran

Ministry of Science, Research and Technology - Technology Park of Khorasan and center for

coordination of knowledge and technology of turquoise and gemstones - November 2012

● The Necessity of designing a scientific system for the higher education of the Jewelry and Gold

Industry (lecture) , conducted by Tehran Industrial Clusters, Ministry of Industries, Tehran, May 2010

●. Methodology of designing higher education programs for the jewelry industry

University of Shahid Beheshti , Tehran , August 2013

Ministry of Education of Islamic Republic of Iran , University of applied Science and Technology ,

University of Northwest ,USA ,Tehran Gold and Jewelry Union , Tehran Association for gold and

jewelry employers, Colombo Plan Staff College ,Philippines, Tehran Association of Gold ,Silver and

Jewelry Distributers

● The representative of Islamic Republic of Iran at the International Conference on Asia – Pacific

Region , Accreditation and Certification for Technical and Vocational Education Institutions

" APACC 2004 Declaration " Seoul ,Republic of South Korea,2004

● Representative of Iran in Eminent Experts Meeting Group (EEMG) for Asia and Pacific Ocean

Region, Manila, Philippines , 2005

● Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the Seminar on Eminent Asian and Pacific

Educational Experts Groups on Long Term Human Resource Planning

Manila, Philippines,2004

● Receiving a special appreciation plaque and honor plate fron the Inter- governmental

International organization COLOMBO PLAN STAFF COLLEGE FOR TECHNICIAN EDUCATION

for Human Resources Development in Asia and thePacific Region

● Recieving 5 Award Certificates and prizes from Ministry of Education ,

Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Ministry of Mines and Metals,Tehran municipalty,

Parks and Green Space Organization,Colombo Plan Staff College "CPSC"

In-country appreciation letters and Certificates

● Minister of Mines and Metals, Mr. Hossein Mahlouji, 1997

● Minister of Education Mr. Ali Ahmadi 2008

●. Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Mr. Hossein Kamali, 2000

● The head of the green space organization of the municipality of Tehran, Mr. Mokhtari

●. Deputy Minister of Education, H.E. the late Mr. Jafar Alaghemandan ( 5 special cases)

● Head of the Technical and Vocational Training Organizatio of Iran Mr. Sazegarnejad

●. Deputies of the Ministry of Education received a total of 5 letters of appreciation

● University of Applied Science and Technology , Bureau of Curriculum Development,0000

● Chairman of Board of directors of Tehran Gold and Jewelry Union 00000

● University of Applied Science and Technology ,Rector of Tehran Gold and jewelry college

● Organization of Basij of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.for educational services

● The Chief Executive Officers in the country have a total of 25 cases

● Chairman of Board of Directors , Iranian Union for manufacturers and exporters of gold and

,silver and precious stones

B- External appreciation certificates

1- The Inter- Governmental International College for Technician Education,CPSC,

Colombo Plan Staff College, Manila Philippines

2. Acknowledgments of the APACC-Asia Commission Accreditation of the year 2002

3 - Acceptance of Acknowledgments from Aberdeen University and North West for academic

and educational activitie

Book and newspaper studying, Creative writing,Crossword puzzles , Backgammon playing, Chess

playing ,Table tennis playing , Camping , Driving , Hiking , Travel Coin collecting , Stone and

Mineral collecting , Bowling , TV and Satellite watching , , Listening to music