Hushang Ansary

Hushang Ansary
Minister of Finance
In office
1 March 1974 – 23 December 1977
Prime MinisterAmir-Abbas Hoveida
Jamshid Amouzegar
Preceded byJamshid Amouzegar
Succeeded byMohammad Yeganeh
Minister of Tourism and Information
In office
29 December 1971 – 1 March 1974
Prime MinisterAmir-Abbas Hoveida
Preceded byHassan Pakravan
Succeeded byMohammad Reza Ameli Tehrani
Ambassador of Iran to the United States
In office
25 May 1967 – 1 October 1969
Prime MinisterAmir-Abbas Hoveida
Preceded byKhosrow Khosrovani
Succeeded byAmir Aslan Afshar
Personal details
Born1927 (age 96–97)
Ahvaz, Pahlavi Iran
Political party
ChildrenNina Ansary

Hushang Ansary (Persian: هوشنگ انصاری, born 1927) is an Iranian-American former diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist. He served for eighteen years in the Iranian government prior to the Iranian Revolution including as Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance and Iran's Ambassador to the United States from 1967 to 1969.[1] He has been chairman or director of companies both in Iran and in the United States.

In 2021, he was convicted, together with his daughter Nina Ansary and others, of defrauding policyholders of Dutch Caribbean insurer ENNIA of more than 500 million dollars.[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference A Thousand Years of the Persian Book Exhibition Opens at Library of Congress March 27 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "GERECHT IN EERSTE AANLEG VAN CURAÇAO o" (PDF). Knipselkrant Curacao. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Ansary ordered to pay over NAf. 1 billion in damages". The Daily Herald sx. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

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