Bahram Salavati

Bahram Salavati completed his graduate studies in 'Socio-Economic and Labor Market Studies' at the University of Milan (Statale), Italy. He returned to Iran in 2016 and completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Sharif University of Technology's Policy Research Institute from 2017 to 2018 with a research project on 'The Return of Iranian Specialists from Abroad'.

He is one of the founders and the director of the Iranian Migration Observatory; a research institution established in 2018 under the Sharif Policy Research Institute in collaboration with the Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology, with the aim of providing up-to-date data and analysis on various types of Iranian migration. Salavati is also a faculty member at the National Institute for Population Research, and in this capacity, he has presented numerous articles and studies on the dynamics of the mobility and return of skilled and educated migrants, particularly focusing on Iran, at domestic and international scientific forums, including IMISCOE network conferences.

His research primarily focuses on the push and pull factors of elite migration, trends in forced migration and asylum-seeking among Iranians, and policies encouraging the return of specialists to the country. Salavati regularly presents and analyzes the findings of the Iranian Migration Observatory in the media and at domestic conferences, including Iran's migration yearbooks and public opinion surveys on the desire to emigrate, and is considered one of the recognized voices in the data-driven analysis of the contemporary wave of Iranian migration.