 Permanand Mohan was born on March 20, 1965 in Gran Couva, Trinidad and Tobago.In 1989 he received a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the University of Saskatchewan.In 2003 he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh as well as Visiting Professor at the Laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES) at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.