Saeed Sohrabpour (Persian: سعيد سهراب پور), (born in 1943 in Tehran), Full Professor of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, has been the vice president and chief adviser of Islamic Republic of Iran’s National Elites Foundation since 2011.
He has also been elected as Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame and was the chancellor of Sharif University of Technology from 1997 to 2010.
Prof Sohrabpour is the president of Research Institute for Science, Technology and Industry Policy Making at the Sharif University of Technology, the chairman of the board for Iran Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise Award (MAKE), Center for Knowledge-based Management, and the chairman of the board for Iran EFQM Representative as well.
After returning to Iran in 1971, he started teaching at the University of Shiraz, faculty of mechanical engineering, as an assistant professor.
Having completed his second sabbatical in 1990 at the University of New Mexico, he was appointed to the development vice chancellor of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and a member of the Academy of Sciences.