Fardad Fateri is President, Chief Executive Officer, and Board Director at International Education Corporation. IEC owns and operates accredited colleges across the United States offering career focused programs preparing students for high demand professions across multiple industries. He has held this post since January 2008.
Dr. Fateri is part of a small group of chief executives in American higher education today with significant experience in the imperative but rare interwoven triad of academic, operations, and business verticals. In his over 25 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Fateri has served as professor, department chair, dean, regional director, college president, division president, chief academic officer, board director, and president & CEO of several medium to large sized non-profit, market funded, and privately held systems of higher education.
Dr. Fateri completed his undergraduate, doctorate and post-doctorate education at University of California in Irvine, California, Alliant International University in San Diego, California and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.