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 Dr. Firouz Naderi is the Associate Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he is responsible for programs and strategic planning. Prior to his recent appointment, he was the head of Mars Exploration, a program aimed at searching for past or present life on Mars. During his tenure, three successful missions orbited or
landed on Mars including the two recent Mars rovers – Spirit and Opportunity.
Before Mars, he Managed NASA’s Origins program with the ambitious goal of finding other Earth-like planets around other stars.
Born March 25,1946, in Shiraz, Iran, Dr. Naderi’s is the recipient of a number of awards including:
NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal
Space Technology Hall of Fame Medal
Selected as an Aviation Week 2004 Aerospace Laureate
Received NASA's highest award the Distinguished Service Medal
A 2005 recipient of Ellis Island Medal of Honour for outstanding contributions that have enriched the American society and exemplify its cultural diversity.
Past winners of this award include President Clinton, Bob Hope, Muhammad Ali, Henry Kissinger, current secretary of Labour and other notables.
Dr. Naderi is also the 2004 winner of the Liberal Prize which is awarded by an Italian foundation to an international
personality who has “contributed profound changes in ideas in modern times”. Cardinal Ratzinger, now the Pope, won this same award two years earlier.
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Chairman: Babak Emamian
Exploration and
Commercialisation
of Space
You are cordially invited to
BIBA’s 117th Meeting with
Dr. Firouz Naderi
Associate Director of NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
as our Guest Speaker,
on Wednesday 4th July 2007
at London Hilton on Park Lane,
W1 7pm to 9pm
The meeting will include a Q & A session with Dr. Naderi on the subject of Space Explorations and New Scientific Discoveries and how Space Technology is utilised in Industry and Commerce
BIBA promotes British-Iranian Businessmen and women; however, we tend to celebrate any Iranian success story |
BRITISH-IRANIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION
PO Box 10473, London NW8 9ZE.
Tel: 0700 078 2221 Fax: 0700 078 2321
Mobile: 07831 295 201
Email: biba@london.com
Website: http://new.bibn.co.uk |
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