Reza Moridi | Business Executive

Reza Moridi | Business Executive, Ontario’s Minister of Research and Innovation

Reza’s career spans academia, research, corporate and public service.

His extensive business, technical, scientific, strategic planning and political experiences gained in Canada and internationally provide him with the knowledge and expertise required to serve.

Political Career Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, June 2014 – June 2016

Reza Moridi, Minister of Research, Innovation & Science Minister of Research and Innovation, February 2013 – June 2016

Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy, November 2011 – February 2013

Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Research and Innovation, September 2009 – November 2011

Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, October 2007 – September 2009

Education: BSc, MSc, MTech, PhD

CANDU Reactor, Industrial Management and Reactor Health Physics certificate courses

Executive Biography

Reza Moridi currently serves as Minister of Research, Innovation and Science. Moridi was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 2007 as MPP for Richmond Hill.

He was re-elected in 2011 and 2014. Prior to that, he was Minister of Research and Innovation, as well as Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities.

Moridi has served as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy, the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, and the Minister of Research and Innovation.  Persian Business Executive Ontario

Prior to entering into politics, Reza held a 17-year career at the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada where he was the Vice-President and Chief Scientist. He also worked in the electrical industry as an executive and in academia as a professor and administrator.

For his contributions to the understanding of nuclear materials, radiation and health physics, Moridi has received the Education and Communication Award from the Canadian Nuclear Society and the U.S. Health Physics Society designated him as a Fellow of the Society.

He was elected as a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics and admitted as a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology.