Dr. Farhad Daftary is Co-Director and head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Daftary received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a consulting editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, co-editor (with W. Madelung) of the Encyclopaedia Islamica, and the general editor of the Ismaili Heritage Series and the Ismaili Texts and Translations Series.