Board of Trustees
Members of the Board of Trustees are the Minister of Sciences, Research & Technology or his representative, Director of the Management and Planning Organization or his representative, Director General of IRC who acts as the Secretary to the Board of Trustees and three to five members elected from the scientific and cultural communities. One of the main goals of the Board of Trustees is the approval of organization chart, regulations, annual budgets and the appraisal of IRC annual report. The members of the Board of Trustees include natural and legal persons that are as follows:

Legal Persons:
1. Dr. Khoshkalam Khosroshahi, President of Central Insurance of I.R. Iran, Chairman of the Board;
2. Dr. Leili Niakan, Director General of Insurance Research Center, Secretary General of the Board;
3. Dr. Shahab Kaskeh, Deputy of the Center for Boards of Trustees and the Audit Committee of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology;
4. Mozhgan Khanloo, Representative of the Strategic Supervisory Deputy of the President.

Natural Persons:
1. Dr. Mohsen Mehrara, Faculty Member, Tehran University;
2. Dr. Mohammad Javad Sharif Zadeh, Faculty Member, Imam Sadegh (S.A.) University;
3. Dr. Hamid Aghajani;
4. Dr. Mahdi Sadeghi Shahdani, Faculty Member, Imam Sadegh (S.A.) University;
5. Dr. Hassan Aghanzari.

Director General of IRC

Dr. Leili Niakan
Email: -
Phone: 0098-21-22074227
 

The Director General of the Insurance Research Center (IRC) is selected from the academic community by the President of the Central Insurance of the Islamic Republic of Iran and formally appointed by the Minister of Science, Research, and Technology for a renewable four-year term. This role must be filled by a faculty member and encompasses key responsibilities such as strategic planning, contract oversight, budgeting, formation of specialized research groups, and implementation of recommendations from the Board of Trustees and the Research Council.

The current Director General of IRC is Dr. Leili Niakan, a faculty member and accomplished scholar with a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences. A long-serving Research Associate at IRC, Dr. Niakan has authored numerous scholarly articles and books in the fields of economics and insurance. Her prior leadership roles include Deputy for Research at IRC, Head of the Personal Insurance Research Department, Technical and Insurance Deputy, and Director of the Risk Mitigation Division at the Buildings Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool. She has also served as a member of the Research Council of Kosar Insurance Company and has reviewed multiple academic papers.

Dr. Niakan’s contributions have earned her national recognition. In 2021, she was honored as IRC’s Best Research Associate, and in 2023, she was ranked third among the top researchers in the fields of insurance and takaful.
 
Research Council
Members of the Research Council are the Director General of IRC who acts as the Chairman of the Council, the Research Deputy of IRC who acts as the Council Secretary, the Directors of Departments and professionals from the insurance industry and academic members from across globe.

The research council responsibilities include planning and determining the scientific and research objectives of IRC, reviewing, evaluating and decision-making on the development of research projects, and formulating the outcomes of research activities. The research council assembly is held every month.

Research Deputy

Dr. Asma Hamzeh
Email: Rdep@irc.ac.ir
Phone: 0098-21-22084022

The Research Deputy is responsible for leading, coordinating and supervising all the studies being carried out at IRC. A large proportion of the Research Deputy workload is related to research projects, sponsoring theses at master’s and Ph.D. level.

One of the major responsibilities of the deputy is offering research proposals to the research council and supervising the activities of the research departments. It also conducts need analysis projects in order to identify the research priorities of the insurance industry.

Under the Research Deputy supervision, since 2009, multiple large-scale research plans have been accomplished and several fundamental research projects have been undertaken and many more are anticipated until the end of 2024.

The current Research Deputy of IRC is Dr. Asma Hamzeh, also Associate Researcher and previous Director of the Modern Insurance Technologies Department of IRC. She has Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Tarbiat Modares. She has also accomplished two Post-Doctoral studies in Mathematics from Kashan Univesity sponsored by Iran National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Elites Foundation.