Sadegh Abbasi Shahkouh holds PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Some of his significant backgrounds and responsibilities in more than 28 years of activity in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology are as follows: "Managing Director of Telecommunication Infrastructure Company", "Deputy President of CRA for Technical Investigations and Licensing", " Deputy President of CRA for Technical and International Affairs", "Head of Post and Telecommunications Scientific-Applied Faculty" and "Head of the Research Institute for Information and Communication Technology”.