Fatemeh Haghighatjou

Fatemeh Haghighatjou

Fatemeh Haghighatjou, also spelled Haghighatjoo ( _fa. فاطمه حقیقت‌جو) was a reformist member of the Iranian Parliament.

After a losing struggle for reform in the parliament, her resignation was accepted as the first by several members on February 23, 2004.

In 2005 Haghighatjoo was a fellow at MIT’s Center for International Relations. [MIT Press release: [http://web.mit.edu/cis/press_release_scholar.html] ] She is currently a fellow at Harvard University's "Women and Public Policy Program". [Harvard University link: [http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/wappp/who/0607fellows.htm#nora] ]

Previously, she held professorships at Tehran University and Shahid Beheshti University. Before entering politics, she was a psychologist and head of the Student Psychological Consultant Center of Iran University of Science and Technology. She is now working at The University of Connecticut in Storrs. [http://phonebk.uconn.edu/results.php]

Haghighatjoo holds a Ph.D. in Counseling. [Ibid.]

References

ee also

*Iranian women


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