Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. His reign began on August 3, 2005.

Ahmadinejad was appointed mayor of Tehran on May 3, 2003 and was elected president on June 24, 2005. He is widely considered to be a religious conservative with Islamist and populist views. Before his appointment as mayor, he was a civil engineer and an assistant professor at the Iran University of Science and Technology.

Politically, Ahmadinejad is a member of the Central Council of the Islamic Society of Engineers, but he has a more powerful base inside the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (Abadgaran). Ahmadinejad is considered one of the main figures in the alliance.