Mehdi Yousefieh is an English teacher, teacher trainer and English school manager. He holds MA in teaching from Tehran University. He has also passed Cambridge University's CELTA course and TOT. He has been teaching since 1378. He founded his own institute in 1384 in Zanjan. Gooyesh now has over four branches with more than 100 staff. He has been training teachers since 1384, many of whom are running their own institutes now. He is an Irsafam mock IELTS speaking examiner. He has held several IELTS courses. He has trained the teachers of over thirty institutes in Iran to start teaching online.