Ayman Rouhani
Ayman Rouhani | |
|---|---|
| ABM | Asia 1998 - 2005 |
| Counsellor | Asia 2005 - 2008 |
| ITC member | 2008 - 2013 |
| UHJ member | 2013 - Present |
Dr. Ayman Rouhani is a Persian-Arab Bahá’í currently serving as a member of the Universal House of Justice.[1]
Background
Rouhani was born into a Bahá’í family with some of his ancestors being Bahá’ís from Nayriz.[2] He was raised in Saudi Arabia where he completed his secondary education in 1994. That year he pioneered to the Caucasus and assisted with the efforts to establish Bahá’í communities throughout the region completing his studies in Medicine in Tbilisi, Georgia. He also taught Arabic literature at the University of Oriental Studies in Tbilisi. He completed a Master’s degree in Public Health in the United Kingdom and returned to Georgia in 2004 where he worked in UNDP and the Ministry of Health.
Rouhani travelled extensively in the former Soviet republics and served on various Bahá’í institutions in the region and was appointed as an Auxiliary Board member in 1998 serving until 2005 when he was appointed as a Continental Counsellor for Asia. He served on that body until 2008 when he was appointed to the International Teaching Center and moved to the Holy Land to serve on the body.[3] He was elected to the Universal House of Justice in April 2013.[4]
In his personal life Rouhani is married to Aliona Lavrinenko, a Ukrainian-Georgian Bahá’í, and together they have two children.
Notes
- ↑ Shahbaz Fatheazam, The Last Refuge: Fifty Years of the Universal House of Justice, p 110
- ↑ Hussein Ahdieh, Foreigner, George Ronald: Oxford, 2019, p 140
- ↑ "The New Delhi Regional Conference". Bahá’í World News Service. Retrieved 22 January 2009.
- ↑ "Universal House of Justice elected". Bahá’í World News Service. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
