Bijan Namdar Zangeneh (Persian: بيژن نامدار زنگنه; born 21 September 1952) is an Iranian politician, who served as minister, at different cabinets after the Islamic Revolution, for 30 years.

[5] He also served as the energy minister in Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's cabinet[6] and made massive efforts for reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country's water and electricity industry in the aftermath of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War and the damages caused to the industry in the Iraqi attacks.

[6] Zangeneh was replaced by Kazem Vaziri Hamane in the post on 29 August 2005 as appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

[5] He was appointed a member of the Expediency Council by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in 1996.

[7] On 21 August Zanganeh was named as the head of Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) for 2013.