A. Kamron Jabbari

Ahmad Kamron Jabbari, publishing executive, was born in Tehran in 1945. He came to the United States in January 1964 and received BA in Aerospace Engineering in 1967 and subsequently, with financial assistance from NASA, he earned an MS from the Pennsylvania States University. He continued his higher education at Washington University in St. Louis where he received an MA in economics in 1974 and a Ph.D. in 1978. He was assistant professor of economics and management at Centre College of Kentucky from 1976-1980. He founded Mazda Publishers, Inc. in 1980 and in 1995 established the Iranica Institute, a nonprofit educational and cultural organization aimed at encouraging research and study about the region and countries collectively known as the Iranicas.