Rouhollah Tavallaee received his Ph.D. degree with honors in Industrial Management (Production and Operations) from Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran. He was a faculty member at the Faculty of Management and Accounting at Shahid Beheshti University from 2012 to 2017. He subsequently joined Imam Hossein Comprehensive University, where he is currently Associate Professor of Knowledge Management at the Faculty of Management and Economics and serves as Deputy for Scientific Interactions and International Affairs (since 2023), having previously held positions such as Deputy for Education and Training (2021–2023) and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Economics (2019–2021).
Since joining the faculty, Dr. Tavallaee has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in knowledge management, strategic management, organizational excellence, research methodology in management, business intelligence, jihad-oriented management, and Islamic transformation of human sciences. At the doctoral level, he regularly offers specialized seminars on strategic knowledge management, indigenous management models, qualitative research methods in organizational studies, and advanced knowledge acquisition techniques.
Dr. Tavallaee is the author of more than 190 peer-reviewed publications, including over 110 journal articles (national and international) and 81 conference papers. He has authored and co-authored 14 scholarly books, among them Strategic Knowledge Management (2024), Organizational Knowledge Map: From Concept to Practice (2025), and Modern Concepts and Applications of Knowledge Management (2016). His works have received more than 350 citations in Google Scholar.
He serves as editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Organizational Knowledge Management (ranked “A” by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology) and as an editorial board member of several reputable journals, including Islamic Management and Strategic Research in Budget and Finance. Dr. Tavallaee has been a keynote speaker at national seminars on the Comprehensive Plan for Islamic Management (Najma) and has provided high-level consulting on knowledge management and strategic projects for major Iranian institutions.
His current research interests focus on organizational knowledge management, indigenous-Islamic strategic management models, knowledge extraction from experts, university cadre-building for Islamic civilization, organizational resilience, and the Islamic transformation of management and human sciences.