Dr. Fazlollah Bagherzadeh from Iran was recently included by the FIE as member of the FIE Promotion and Publicity Commission. He is the 24th Asian official serving the FIE for the quadrennial term until 2020, the most number of Asians ever accepted to be in the FIE structure.
Dr. Bagherzadeh is the president of the Iranian Fencing Federation and a long time member of the FCA Executive Board. He was also recently elected Vice President in the Iranian National Olympic Committee.