Shana's correspondent reported from the Iranian legislature body that 222 members of the parliament voted for him to obtain a decisive vote to take the helm of the Petroleum Ministry.

Early Iranian week on Saturday, the president Masoud Pezeshkian submitted the names of his picks for 19 ministers to Parliament for approval including Mohsen Paknejad as the petroleum ministry nominee.  

Born in 1966 in the capital city of Tehran, Mohsen Paknejad has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Tehran University and a master's degree in Industrial engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology.

He has already served in the Petroleum Ministry as the deputy minister of petroleum for supervision over hydrocarbon resources from 2018 to 2021.

Paknejad started his career in the early 1990s in the Ministry of Energy and then moved to the Petroleum Ministry in 1997 where he has served in different managerial posts.

The following are several posts he has been in charge of over at least the past twenty years: 

Advisor to the petroleum minister, leading the Petroleum Ministry’s headquarters for supervision of fuel supply, manager of gas fields development plan, director general of supervision of oil products exports and technical inspection, member of the board of directors of the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company, (ICOFC) director for planning at ICOFC, deputy head of the combined planning division at NIOC and deputy petroleum minister for supervision on hydrocarbon resources.

General director for supervision of oil products trade and export at the Petroleum Ministry, managing director of Naftiran Intertrade Company as well as vice-chairman of the board of directors of Naftiran Intertrade Company are other managerial posts he has been in charge of while serving at the Petroleum Ministry.