Tahereh Fardin Tabrizi was born in Iran and moved to Zimbabwe with her parents when she was 7 years old. As she started high school, they moved to South Africa whereafter she completed her LLB in Law at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and subsequently her LLM in international Law at the university of Johannesburg. She participated as an exchange student at Leiden University in the Netherlands at the faculty of Law for the course of Advanced Air and Space law. In addition to her studies and activities in law, she has been instrumental in the administration and accounting setup of two small start-up companies in South Africa. Tahereh has also provided translation and legal research services to organisations in Iran, South Africa and Iraq. In her career, Tahereh has also served the UN refugee council in Iraq as well as the Afghani refugees in Iran. She has been working as a legal advisor and compliance advisor for a few years now. Academia has always been a huge part of her life, and she is currently busy with the admission requirements for a PhD in law focusing on women’s issues in Human Rights.
