Reza Moridi

Reza Moridi served as Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, and Minister of Research, Innovation and Science. He also served as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy and Chair of the Cabinet Committee on Education, Skills and Economy. He first elected to the Ontario Parliament in 2007 and re-elected in 2011 and 2014.

Reza is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto and serves on several voluntary Boards. He is a graduate of Tehran University, Iran (BSc and MSc) and Brunel University London, UK (MTech and PhD). He received an Honorary Doctorate from Odlar Yurdu University, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Reza has received numerous awards and recognitions for his original contributions to physics and engineering, and for his extensive community and humanitarian services.
Reza was a Charted Engineer (CEng), Chartered Physicist (CPhys), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and Fellow of the US Health Physics Society. He was the recipient of the Canadian Nuclear Society award.

In recognition of his contribution to Canada, he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and the City of Richmond Hill honoured him by naming a street as “Urmia Avenue” – after the city in Iran where Reza was born.