Dr. Hamid Notghi is known as Father of Iran modern Public Relations due to his writing and compiling the first articles on Public Relations, defending and determining the related concepts, teaching the first periods of PR courses in Iran. Composing the prominent book of .PR Management.. delivering speeches at the first seminar on Public Relations in Iran Higher Education System and other numerous works on PR and promoting this skill and new art in Iran.
Dr. Notghi was born on 1st September 1920 in Tabriz. He passed his primary education at his town and then emigrated to Astara with his family and Continued his study in .Hakim Nezami School. and at the same time was acquainted with Ali Esfandiari (Nima Youshij).
Then he continued his education at College of Law, University of Tehran and then got his Ph.D. in Law from Istanbul University.
He was interested in literature and poem, so he began to cooperate with literary Publication of Istanbul University and through this began his way to Communication World.
Dr. Notghi came back to Iran in 1948 and was employed in Oil Consortium, then at the Iran . British Petroleum Company. In this regard, he himself says .in 1948, the Iran . British Petroleum Company has encountered with a huge crisis after changes including establishing Public Relations in this sector and this was simultaneous with my graduation.
At that time head of Iran Oil Company PR was Marshal Montgomery who supervised selecting the members of the first group of Public Relations.
.He recognized my education, writing background and my taste as suitable for this Job.
We were responsible to compare the principles of Public Relations in Iran or perhaps in the Middle East for the first time.
He was teaching as the director of Public Relations in 1967 after establishing the High Institute for Journalism. After victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and due to removing of Public Relations field of study, he continued his research and educational activities.
In 1990, as a result of Dr. Kazem Motamed Nejad.s efforts and the cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Higher Education, the course of Public Relations was approved as a course of university study.
Dr. Notghi took a trip to UK because of his hard illness in 1990. There, he continued his study and research and cooperated with Edinburgh University on Middle East Movements and the role of communications in emerging of such movements.
Dr. Notghi returned to Iran in November 1998 and was welcomed in a ceremony by his friends, students and cooperators, who appreciated his efforts on his scientiÞc activity.
Dr. Notghi paved the way for establishing Public Relations Departments in Public and private institutes and make it for his students known.
Dr. Notghi was the first person who established the new plan of Public Relations in Iran.
He was one of those who initiated establishing Iran Public Relations and compiled the Articles of Association of PR Association.
Dr. Notghi had considerable knowledge in law, history, political sciences, literature and poem, despite of his knowledge in communication sciences and Public Relations. He was fluent in Persian, English, French, German, Italian and Turkish.
He passed away on 17 July 1999,aged 79.
Dr. Notghi was Elite in our time but, what a pity! We did not understand his elegance.