Abdulali_Ali-Asgari
Abdulali Ali-Asgari
Iranian media executive
Abdulali Ali-Asgari (Persian: عبدالعلی علیعسگری; born 1958 in Ray, Tehran, Iran) is the current CEO of Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Corporation[2].He is also an Iranian media executive who was the former director-general of IRIB.[3][4]
Ali-Asgari, who was previously a deputy at IRIB in charge of technology and a professor at the Iran Broadcasting University, was appointed as IRIB's director-general on 11 May 2016 after previous head Mohammad Sarafraz resigned from office. He has been referred to as "the father of digital television in Iran" for his work on converting the organization from analog to digital.
He is uncle of Hamidreza Aliasgari.[5]