Dr. Safvat was born on November 28, 1928 in Shiraz, Persia (present-day Iran). He received a B.A. in Law from the University of Tehran in 1953 and a Ph.D. in International Law from the Paris School of Law (France) in 1965. Over the course of his distinguished career, he held many key posts in academia and the music scene, among them a Fellow at The Academy of Sciences, the Islamic Republic of Iran.[2]