Draft:Mehdi Jahangiri Koohsahi

Mehdi Jahangiri Koohshai (born in Baft, Kerman ). is an economist, banker, chairperson and the CEO of the Tourism Financial Group, and owner of Tourism Bank.

He is the chairman of the board of the Iran-Greece Chamber of Commerce and the vice chairman of TCCIMA (Tehran Chamber of Commerce Industries Mines and Agriculture).

His brother, Ishaq Jahangiri, served as the first deputy in the government of Hassan Rouhani and candidate for the 2017 Iranian presidential elections.

Family and Education
His father, Hassan Jahangiri, was a mineworker in Abdasht chromite mine in Esfandagh, but after his birth, he moved to Sirjan and lived there until his death in July 2009. He is the youngest member of the family and one of the five brothers of the Jahangiri family, who, along with Ishaq Jahangiri, is more famous than the other brothers. One of his brothers, Muhammad, was killed in November 1959, in Sosangerd, during the Iran-Iraq war. His other brother Yaqub was killed in 63 and the Badr operation. His other brother Ebrahim was a candidate in the 2016 Iranian legislative election from Sirjan as a representative of the Iranian Reformists' Party. He has a Ph.D. in the field of International Economics.

Activities
Jahangiri established the Tourism Bank in 2010 in Tehran. Tourism Bank was listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange on 25.07.2011. It is a subsidiary of Tourism Financial Group.

Tourism bank is a commercial bank which, besides the conventional products, offers a set of loans, credit facilities and investment products for the tourism industry. It collaborates close with domestic and international airliners, merchants, travel agencies and hotels.

The Iran-Greece Chamber of Commerce

Jahangiri is the chairman of the board of the Iran-Greece Chamber of Commerce. On May 24, 2012, the Iran-Greece Chamber of Commerce was founded to strengthen economic ties between Iran and Greece across various sectors such as industry, commerce, mining, agriculture, and services. Additionally, the Chamber seeks to promote bilateral exchanges and investments between the two countries.

In 2015 Jahangiri as chairman of Aria Ziggurat signed an agreement with a major French hotel, Accor Hotels, in the first deal of its kind since Tehran reached an agreement with world powers on its disputed nuclear program to use the Novotel and Ibis brands for 15 years. The two firms did not publicize the amount of the contract.