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Mohammad Reza Kalaei
Director of Sarakhs Special Economic Zone
Incumbent
Assumed office 25 September 2021
Mayor of Mashhad
In office 11 December 2018 – 4 August 2021 Acting: 18 November 2018 - 10 December 2018
Preceded by	Ghasem Taghizadeh Khamesi
Succeeded by	Abdullah Erjaee Shirazi
Personal details
Born	(1981-01-08) 8 January 1981 (age 43) Mashhad, Iran
Political party	Economist
Alma mater	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Mohammad Reza Kalaei (born 8 January 1980 in Mashhad) is an economist who has been working for the last time as the Director of Sarakhs Special Economic Zone. He previously worked as the mayor of Mashhad.

He holds a PhD in Iranian Economics from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. On November 18, 2018, kalaei was elected mayor by members of the Islamic City Council of Mashhad.^[1] On December 11, 2018, he officially started his activity with the order of Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli.^[2]

Prior to his election as mayor of Mashhad, Kalaei served in the Ministry of Cooperation, Labour, and Social Welfare, the National Steel Pension Fund,^[3] the Tehran Municipality and the Research Center of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

Also, Kalaei participated in the elections of the tenth term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly as a candidate in the constituencies of Mashhad and Kalat, and with 226,645 votes, he was in the ninth place and did not enter the tenth term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.