Dashgin Iskandarov was born in Azerbaijan's Shemakhi District in 1965. He did his military service from 1983–1985, and after completing his military service, he entered the department for development and complex mechanization of oil and gas fields of Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry named M. Azizbayov (now Azerbaijan State University of Oil and Industry). Upon graduating from the institute in 1991, he was qualified as a mining engineer. He later did a PhD. He is married, and has two children.
