Farzam Arbab
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| Farzam Arbab | |
 Keynote speaker, Dr. Farzam Arbab, at the 2004 Portals to Growth conference in Australia
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| Born | October 27, 1941 Tehran, Iran |
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| NSA member | Colombia, 1970 - 1980 |
| Counsellor | Americas, 1980 - 1988 |
| ITC member | 1988 - 1993 |
| UHJ member | 1993 - present |
| Known for | Work with FUNDAEC |
Farzam Arbab (b. October 27, 1941) is currently serving as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá’í Faith.
Dr. Arbab was born into a Bahá’í family Tehran, Iran and obtained his doctorate in physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of Fundacion para la Aplicacion de las Ciencias (FUNDAEC), a nongovernmental development agency in Colombia, from 1974 to 1988, and continues to serve on its board of directors.
From 1970 until 1980 he served as the Chairman for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Colombia. In 1980 he was appointed to the Continental Board of Counsellors for the Protection and Propagation of the Faith in the Americas, on which he served for eight years. In 1988, he was named to the Bahá’í International Teaching Centre, which has its seat in Haifa, Israel, and was a member of that body until 1993, when he was first elected to the Universal House of Justice.
[edit] Education
Dr. Arbab holds a BA from Amherst College, Massachusetts (1964), a doctorate in elementary particle physics from the University of California, Berkeley (1968), and an honorary doctorate in science from Amherst College (1989)
[edit] References
- "Members of the Universal House of Justice". Beliefnet. 2002-09-13. http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp?boardID=35421&discussionID=182130. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
- "Bahá’í World Centre". UK Bahá’í Journal. 2003-05-7. http://www.bahaijournal.org.uk/BJ200307/bwc.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-11.
