Ali-Akbar Siassi PhD was an Iranian intellectual, psychologist and politician during the 1930s and 1960s, serving as the country's education and foreign minister, chancellor of University of Tehran, minister of education (1943–1944), minister of foreign affairs (1945), minister of state without portfolio (1945). He drafted bill and law for National Compulsory Free Education, and took necessary measures for its enforcement 1943.