INTRODUCTION

One of the most important cores of the policies introduced in Principle 44 of the Constitution is the subject of “privatization”, “transfer of management and ownership of shares and state enterprises” to the private sector. Despite the Supreme Leader’s stress on accelerating the implementation of this policy and mission, its implementation has become one of the most challenging topics. Finding the root cause and other factors contributing to this shortcoming, and overcoming the challenges facing the implementation of the aforementioned policy, is essential for the improvement and advancement of the nation’s economic system and reaching its higher goals; as being, the duty and commitment of the organization is Privatization. The lack of discussion, raising awareness, and explanation of the complexities, realities, and their results, along with the not  receiving feedback, modification of procedures and their efficiency in alignment with the new conditions,  leading to the complete assignment  of all discussion on this topic to the critics and the those who oppose these policies, in the absence of voices capable of responding and thus the prevalence of the opposition in the minds of decision-makers which subsequently gives rise to unrealistic judgements regarding the complex subjects of transfers and privatization, have all collectively,  make it crucial to provide a system in the form of holding an international event on discussing  privatization in Iran’s economy; carrying out this mission and creating grounds for initiating discussion between policy-makers, critics, beneficiaries, and executers of privatization, henceforth,  introducing the real results of privatization, transfers, and process with a comprehensive and realistic outlook. In addition, it is essential to design suitable methods with the assistance of committees and specialized taskforces and elites for the purpose of achieving excellence in this task and to improve it, based on the experience that has been so far gained. In this event, which will serve as a practical and execution workshop complex in different subjects and cores of privatization, in addition to displaying the realities and the outcomes of the transfer to the buyers and the private sector, the input and views of those interested in the processes; and, challenges of their engagement in this field will be received; and, necessary approaches will be designed for them accordingly. Based on the experiences gained, the transfer processes are promoted to design and define incentives and rewards for the productive management in the new ownership modes.

In the new mission of the Privatization Organization, the privatization of the government’s assets will take place for the purpose of obtaining desirable results and effects, while taking into consideration the productivity of these assets in the national economy, and the experience of organizations from the previous transfers. In this event, in addition to the internal experiences in the form of international committee, the experiences of countries that have successfully privatized the shares, companies, and the management of government assets and attracted foreign capital into their own markets, the contributions of the government is also taken into consideration and practical approaches will be designed for it.

Hence, for the purpose of analyzing these processes, explaining the current situation, and visualizing the potential and anticipated future possibilities, the Privatization Organization is holding the International Privatization event from May 21 to 24, 2022.

In alignment with this goal and to complete this mission, it is crucial to attempt  to collect the opinions and views of the specialists and the top expert managers of the system in the field of these policies, on the topic of the rearrangement of the executive methods, so that in addition to receiving the views,  analysis and adaptation of the aforementioned methods based on the achievement of this ideology, a picture of the suitable methods may be illustrated for the accomplishment of this task.