Farzam Arbab

Farzam Arbab (born October 27, 1941 in Tehran, Iran) is currently serving as a member of the Universal House of Justice, the supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith. He was elected in 1993.

Biography

Dr. Arbab was born into a Bahá'í family Tehran, Iran. He received a Bachelor's degree from Amherst College, in 1964 and obtained his doctorate in elementary particle physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of Fundación para la Aplicación y Enseñanza de las Ciencias (FUNDAEC), a nongovernmental development agency in Colombia, from 1974 to 1988, and continues to serve on its board of directors. He holds an honorary doctorate in science from Amherst College (1989).

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. [cite web |url=http://news.bahai.org/story/208 |title=Two new members join Universal House of Justice |author=Bahá'í World News Service |date=2003-05-07]

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