Farhad Moshiri

Farhad Moshiri is a British-Iranian businessman, born in Iran on 18 May 1955 and based in Monaco. He built his fortune in metals and mining as the business partner of Alisher Usmanov, and became known to a wider public as the majority owner of Everton Football Club between 2016 and 2024. ¹

Moshiri was born in Iran; his father Majid was an army doctor who became a senior military judge, and his mother's family owned the Kayhan publishing house. His parents left Iran shortly before the 1979 revolution. ¹ He studied economics and statistics at University College London and qualified as a chartered certified accountant, working for Ernst & Young, Pannell Kerr Forster and Deloitte & Touche. ¹ No source consulted for this record states a religion for Moshiri himself. ^{1 2}

Moshiri was executive director of GNE Group and chief executive of Europe Steel before chairing the Russian mining company Metalloinvest from 2006 to 2013 and then USM Holdings, resigning the USM chairmanship on 2 March 2022 after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ¹ With Usmanov he co-owned Red & White Holdings, which built a stake of nearly 30 per cent in Arsenal. ¹ In February 2016 he sold that stake to fund a takeover at Everton, buying 49.9 per cent of the club and raising his holding to 94 per cent by January 2022; he agreed to sell to Dan Friedkin's group in September 2024 and the sale was completed on 19 December 2024. ¹

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