Hamid Shahriari (Persian: حمید شهریاری) (born: 1963, Tehran); complete name: "Hamid Hawali Shahriari" (Persian: حمید حوالی شهریاری) is an Iranian Twelver Shia cleric who has recently been appointed as the general secretary of The World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought by the decree of Iran's supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei—instead of Mohsen Araki.