Kaveh Farrokh was born on September 24, 1962 in Athens, Greece. He is an Iranian whose ancestral background  is from the Caucasus (Georgian-Ossetian and Azarbaijani roots):

Fereydoun Farrokh, Kaveh’s father in Georgian national dress in the late 1920s. Iranians have strong cultural and historical links with Georgia and the Caucasus.

As a result of his life experience, education, and studies of linguistics, Farrokh now speaks English, German, French, and Persian. He also has a working understanding of at least three living languages, Provençal, Italian, Dutch, and Kurmanji Kurdish, as well as two ancient languages, Latin and Pahlavi. He has also lived in and traveled to several countries, including West Germany, East Germany, France, England, Belgium, Italy, Russia, and Iran.

Farrokh obtained his undergraduate arts degree in May 1985 and his Ph.D. on September 24, 2001 from the University of British Columbia, where he specialized on the cognitive and linguistic processes of Persian speakers.

Farrokh has been recognized as an expert in the field of Iranian history and linguistics, by venues such as the University of British Columbia’s Continuing Studies Division, WAIS at Stanford University, the BBC, the Voice of America and the Iranian equivalent of the New York Times, the Kayhan Newspaper of London. From an early age he exhibited a keen aptitude and interest in history. His talents were first recognized in 1980, during his senior year at the Institut Chateaubriand in Cannes, France, where he was granted the Leonardo Da Vinci Prize for high achievement in history from the mayor.

 

Kaveh Farrokh