BIBA held its 102nd event on Monday, 18th February 2002 at The House Of Lords. This year’s first event was dedicated to “celebrating the peerage of BIBA’s president, The Lord Temple-Morris.” It was undoubtedly a successful evening with a turnout of 250 which as well as BIBA members comprised of diplomats and government officials of the British embassy in Tehran.

The speech of Babak Emamian, the chairman of BIBA is as follows;

'Looking back to August 1994, the commencement of BIBA, we never envisaged an organization that would develop such a vast network of contacts, have its own publication of journals and its very own resourceful website, let alone attract an inspiring audience such as yourselves. Today BIBA is looked upon as a centre of influence that has become a learning Organization with its main focus as marketing and business.

Today we are fortunate to be at one of the most influential and prestigious institutions ever known to man: The British Parliament. This institution is regarded to be the

'mother of the parliamentary system' a system of legislative nature where the conduct of its officials and members serve as a paragon to many of its kind. However, there is more to composing a unique system than a mere set of rules and regulations. In order to generate a unique system, you need individuals who are so-minded to give it LIFE, and surely the members of these chambers have just done that. These unique individuals have Worked with the spirit of fairness and respect for mankind hence making equal opportunities a possibility rather than a mere dream. Today, as we look around this very room, we see the result of the British system: I think I’m right in observing that most of us arrived here as refugees or immigrants with almost nothing to look back on or forward to, however we were treated as equals, we were treated with justness and utter most respect, and more importantly we were granted equal opportunities as god intended from the beginning for every man.

Therefore I would like to take a moment to express gratitude to the British for their great sense of fair play. THANK YOU.

In 1995, within a year of its inception, BIBA was no more than an infant. Those who could not foresee our current success were writing off the association. We were commonly criticised for two flaws: Firstly for being an undeveloped organisation devoid of track records, and secondly for being managed by young individuals. Back in those days as I recall, another young man from these very chambers was facing a similar problem. However when we approached Lord Temple Morris in 1995 and asked him to become our president, to our surprise and the sceptics, not only was he generous by accepting our request, but he also saw something in our efforts that others did not. Essentially he was a friend in our time of need.

This was followed by the heartfelt words of Lord peter Temple-Morris who declared that 'being married to an Iranian' (Tahereh Alam) meant that he had 'married Iran', a nation and culture that he warmly cherishes. He also stated that he held in his pride to be associated with BIBA, an organization that had unified British-Iranians.

BIBA is holding its 103rd Business Metting on Wednesday, April 10th 2002 at the Institute of Directors. The second business meeting of the year is dedicated to "The Art of Communication". We request the pleasure of your company:

From the dawn of life, communication has been the foremost important element of human nature; Communication is undoubtedly pivotal in gaining success in one’s endeavour as an educator, a businessman, a politician and so forth. The primitive form of communication was that of face-to-face speech. With time however, we have discovered various means of delivering our messages, through the mass media for example: Books& newspapers, television& Radio, and most recently the Internet& emails. Once again, we have spoilt ourselves with choice however it is difficult to determine which method is the most effective.

Sattareh Farman farmaian has proven to be an exemplary communicator as well as triumphing in her career as a renowned social worker. She has won great respect in her profession in addition to successfully communicating her message to a universal audience through her best selling book “Daughter Of Persia”. She has managed to gain world stage recognition through her book, which is known to be a difficult medium.

Nowadays, most Iranians are gaining recognition for their political rather than scientific, commerce-based and industrial achievements. Sattareh is successful on two different levels; firstly for achieving her ambitions, and secondly for her communication skills. It is refreshing to see an Iranian who has received homage through her social work rather than political. Moreover, very recently she received a “National Award for Communications” in Los Angeles. The “National Association Of Social Workers USA” has also acknowledged her as one of the top 15 social workers in the world.

The business community should learn from Sattareh who is epitomic of arriving at one’s objectives as well as earning worldwide coverage. Her line of work is not considered to be luxurious or glamorous, but it deals with great predicament and social failures. She has proven all the sceptics wrong; She has shown beyond doubt that one can turn a tragic situation into something positive. As business people we are expected to do the same in achieving our goals. Had she been a businesswoman, she would have been a very successful one.


Sattareh Farman-Farmaian

Born in 1920s in Iran, Sattareh Farman-Farmaian grew up as the daughter of Qajar prince. She studied at the University of Southern California, earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in social work, and then studied family and child law at the University of Chicago from 1944 to 1954. She also worked for Travellers’ Aid and the International Institute

After leaving the United States, Ms Farman-Farmaian worked as a social welfare expert for the Middle East at the UN Bureau of Social Affairs in Baghdad from 1954 to 1958. She founded the Tehran School Of Social Work after returning to Iran in 1958, and served as a director until 1979. At the same time, she founded and served as executive director of both the Family Planning Association of Iran and the Community of Welfare Centres of Iran. After a narrow escape from execution by a firing squad, she left the country at the height of the Islamic Revolution to return to the United States and began working for the Los Angeles Country Department Of Social Services, Children’s Services from 1980 to 1992, continuing a career long effort to advance women’s rights worldwide.

Agenda:

6:30pm - 7:15pm: Registration and Tea
7:15pm - 8:30pm: Business Meeting
8:30pm - 9:00pm: Reception

Location:
Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1

Date:
2002-04-10

RSVP:
BIBA, PO Box 10473, London NW8 9ZE.

Cambridge is now beheld by many as the UK\'s silicon valley. BIBA would like to take this opportunity to support and challenge the Cambridge University Persian Society to transform itself into a " Centre of Commerce and Technology" . With such high level of education and so many talented people in the Cambridge, it would be a calamity not to do so.

In our opinion, the Persian society at Cambridge has been associated with Iranian history and art for far too long. In general it is about time that the Persian societies around the world started acknowledging and demonstrating not just art & history but also commerce & technology.

If we have learnt one thing from Iranian history, it must be the missed-opportunities that Iranians have had in contributing to world\'s peace and prosperity.

Today, the Diaspora Iranians have a unique moment in history to do the right thing, to promote nation-building and be part of the cause for the world\'s peace & prosperity through commerce and technology. Nonetheless, if we fall short, it would be another great predicament and a social failure. We are certain this is the test of our time, that whether we can prove the sceptics wrong and convert a tragic state of affairs into something positive.

BIBA was formed to raise to a higher rank the British-Iranian scientists, nation-builders and businessmen and women. This very fact has been the underlying explanation to our success and popularity amongst Iranians and non-Iranians. Our aim is to extend the same synergy and fortune to the Persian society and would like to take BIBA to Cambridge University and bring the university into BIBA.

Over the last 8 years we have created a lot of local and national heroes. We are convinced that BIBA could assist the Persian Society to achieve the same by putting at its

 

 

Lord Peter Temple-Morris President of the British-Iranian Business Association, BIBA, Chairperson of the Meeting
Ali Reza Nourizadeh Former political editor of Iran’s daily, Ettelaat, Ali Reza Nourizadeh is the Editor of Al Moujez and Rouzegar-e-Now magazines and commentator for a dozen Persian and Arabic dailies, TV and Radio stations in Europe and US. He is a columnist at Daily Star of Lebanon.
Nazanine Moshiri A Radio One producer/news reader, she used to present live bulletins on ITN News Direct, LBC and IRN, as a Business correspondent. She has also presented live business reports on ITN News Channel and Channel 5.
Baqer Moin Winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s Elizabeth R Award in 2002 for his contribution to public service broadcasting, Baqer Moin is head of the BBC Persian and Pashto service, which broadcasts to Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia.
Tannaz Fazaipour Formerly at Sunday Times, Tannaz Fazaipour is a producer/news reader for the 24-hour news channel. She reports for the ITV Morning News and LBC. She has worked on a variety of current affairs programmes for the BBC, Channel Four and Channel 5.

Agenda:
7.00 - 8.30 pm.

Location:
Institute of Directors 116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED.

 

 

 

 

  

Date:
2002-10-30

RSVP:
BRITISH-IRANIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION

PO Box 10473, London NW8 9ZE.

T: 0700 078 2221
F: 0700 078 2321
M: 07831 295 201

BIBA is holding its 108th Business Meeting on Friday 13th December at London Hilton, Park Lane. To end the year in a festive fashion, we have also organised an End of the Year Party.



Mehrdad & Fantasia



Have you ever wondered why nowadays the most important economic index is neither the interest rate nor the unemployment figure but the Consumer Confidence Index?

Unless the economies of China & India expand rapidly, which is unlikely, the Western Economy is very much dependent on its consumers’ desire to purchase. The average household in the Western Democracies have prospered so well in the last decade that they can survive without purchase of any consumer goods for the next five years.

But just imagine what would happen, if we all decided not to purchase any consumer goods for a whole year. The entire world economy would almost collapse or at best just survive! So, as long as people have the confidence to buy, we are OK. However 9/11 and Bali tragedies have proven how fragile the consumer confidence can be. ,

To seek realistic answers to the current queries about the economy and its locomotive of growth in 2003, BIBA has organised a Q&A Seminar which will cover Finance, Property, Oil &Gas, and Media & Cinema.

Agenda:

Meeting: 7.00-8.30 pm Party: 8.30-11.00 pm

Location:
Wellington Ball Room, Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London W1

Date:
2002-12-13

RSVP:,
BRITISH-IRANIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
PO Box 10473, London NW8 9ZE.

T: 0700 078 2221
F: 0700 078 2321
M: 07831 295 201