VOL. XLVI

No 13

31-March-2003

IRAN

Irans Central Bank Governor Dies

The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), Mohsen Nourbakhsh, has died of a heart attack at the age of 55, Irans official news agency IRNA announced on 23 March. Dr Nourbakhsh, who held a PhD in economics from the University of California at Davis, was a key advocate of market reforms and economic liberalization, and his ideas were at times in conflict with other government officials, notably most recently with the current...