Kamran Ghaderi was born in a small village in the North-West of Iran, in the Kurdish region on the border with Iraq. He grew up in the city of Tehran. As a teenager, he experienced the Islamic revolution first hand. In 1983, his destiny led him to Austria, where he found a new home. Kamran studied electrical engineering and completed his doctorate at the Vienna University of Technology. Together with some friends, Kamran founded an Iranian Library and “Persepolis”, a cultural association for Iranian migrants in Vienna. Under the motto “Think of others”, he works intensively for the realisation of human rights in Austria and Iran.