Kayhan Yusefi received his bachelor's degree in management in East Kurdistan, Iran. He then fled to South Kurdistan (Iraq) for political reasons and continued his activities in one of the Iranian Kurdish opposition parties. For four years, Yusefi was the General Secretary of the Union of Democratic Students of Iranian Kurdistan. Keyhan Yusefi became a refugee in Bulgaria in 2016 and received his Master's degree in Strategic Leadership from the New Bulgarian University in Bulgaria in 2022.