Farshad Rastegar is Founder, President and Chief Executive of Relief International - Schools Online.
Dr. Rastegar founded Relief International with a focus on assisting refugees and disaster victims through innovative empowerment strategies utilizing integrated, community development, multi-sectoral approaches. At Relief International he has helped develop an organization specialized in transitioning societies from relief to development and from centralized to market economies. Dr. Rastegar has personally worked in active conflict areas such as Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo and Tajikistan as well as in post natural disaster and/or developmental contexts such as Nicaragua, Jordan and Iran. Since March 2003, with the merger of Relief International with Schools Online, Dr. Rastegar has assumed the role of CEO at RI-SOL. Today RI-SOL works in 39 countries.