He was born in 1960 in Duz township of Kirkuk province. Before the outbreak of the 1974-1975 revolution in South Kurdistan, the late Iraqi Ba'athist regime imprisoned him and his family, deported them and they took refuge in open camps in East Kurdistan. A year after the collapse of the revolution, they returned to Iraq in the summer of 1976, where they were displaced to Fallujah.
In the winter of 1978, the Ba'ath regime allowed him to return to Kurdistan and settle in Sulaymaniyah. He became a member of the Kurdistan Socialist Movement and then returned to Kirkuk with his family, where he continued his high school education and secret struggle.
In the summer of 1979, he became a member of a Theater Troupe and worked with the late Hussein Misri, Ismail Hawrami, Ihsan Mohidin, Jihad Ahmad and many other great theater artists of the city. During this period, he published several articles on theater in the magazines of Bayan, Roshnbiri Nui, Karwan and Roji Kurdistan.
After graduating from Kirkuk Industrial High School, he joined the Kurdistan Socialist Party in the winter of 1983 and served as a reserve officer in the southern fronts of the Iran-Iraq war for three years.
In the autumn of 1986, after marrying Ms. Chro Ismail Rashan (sister of painter Chiman Ismaili), he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Revolutionary at the request of the Socialist Party and participated in the activities of the Kurdistan Peshmerga Forces. He also published several artistic and political articles in the magazines Qandil, Suren and Payami Alai Shorsh under the name of Kiaksar Kakeyi.
In early 1988, he and his wife fled to Turkey and immigrated to Canada a year later. There he enrolled at the University of Winnipeg, where he earned a bachelor's degree in theater and drama in 1993 and an honorary bachelor's degree in political science a year later. During this time, he published several political articles in English, Arabic and Kurdish in the Winnipeg Free Press, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Al-Hayat, Al-Marat, Al-Mughtarb, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Alai Azadi, Kurdistani Nwe, and Khabat.
In the spring of 1995, he moved to Germany, where he trained members of the Ahmadi Khani Theater Troupe for a year and worked as a Kurdish Academy director for MedTV.
In 1996, he was employed by the Ontario Ministry of Justice as a translator and social researcher.
In 2001, he attended Harvard University, earned a certificate as a negotiation coach, worked with several law firms, and founded Mamu Zen Investment.
In 2002-2003, he directed Waiting for Hope, which won the Best International Drama Award at the New York Film and Video Festival.
From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a contract translator and political advisor with the US Department of Defense in Baghdad and Baquba.
In 2007, he became a negotiation instructor at the US National Training Center's Military Leadership Training Academy.
In the summer of 2008, after obtaining a master's degree in diplomacy from the University of Norway, he became a negotiating consultant in the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
In the autumn of 2009, the Independent Election Commission granted him an independent entity license to run in the Iraqi national elections in Kirkuk province. However, to protect Kurdish national interests in the province, he withdrew from the elections and returned to Canada.
In addition to publishing several academic articles on the Kurdish issue in international relations, Saeed Kakeyi has published two books in English entitled Kurds and International Relations and Understanding Conflict Management and Cooperative Negotiation.[1]