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Houshang Ameri is an Iranian politician and professor.

Early Life
Ameri was born in Tehran on August 17th, 1935 to Mirza Javad Khan Ameri. He finished primary schooling in Tehran. He attended high school in Tehran and London, and upon graduation entered the University of Tehran, majoring in mathematics.

Education
After a year at the University of Tehran Ameri transferred to the University of Nebraska, where he majored in political science and philosophy, and minored in French language and literature. He obtained a Bachelor of arts at the University of Nebraska. He also studied Military Science and Tactics through the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He continued his studies in Switzerland from 1962 to 1963.

While serving at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran and in the Iranian Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany, Ameri continued his graduate work and research in political science and international relations at the Universities of Tehran and Bonn. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Bonn where he was among the scholars of Hans-Adolf Jacobsen.

Ameri also spent two years at Christ Church in Oxford following the O.U.F.S.C. where he obtained his Master of Letters. He also did research in Oxford and conducted a seminar in conjunction with Dr. Paul Hayes, the late Dean of Keble College in Oxford.

Political Career
In 1962 Ameri took the diplomatic entrance exam of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and began working at the ministry in 1963. After having worked for 3 years at the ministry he was transferred to the Iranian Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1975 to 1978, Ameri was Counselor and chargé d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of Iran to the Office of the United Nations at Geneva, Alternate Representative of Iran to the Committee on Disarmament, as well as a delegate to various U.N. General Assembly sessions and international conferences. He was director of the Third Political Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from March 1978 until he submitted his request for early retirement in July 1980.

Teaching Career
Ameri has taught at the University of Tehran, the Advanced School of Political Science in Tehran, and the Institute of International Relations affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1983 to 1984 he was a visiting fellow at the Centre of International Studies of the University of Cambridge. He started working as professor of political science and international relations at the Geneva (Switzerland) branch of Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, in September 1985 and retired from that post in 2018.