H.E. Hedayat AMIN-ARSALA- Senior Minister

Hedayat Amin-Arsala was born in Kabul in 1942. He received his Bachelor's from the University of Southern Illinois and Masters in Economics from George Washington University (US). In 1969, he joined the World Bank. In 1987, he left it to serve as Senior Advisor and member of the Afghan Mujahiddin Unity Council. From 1989 to 1992 he served as the Interim Government's Finance Minister. In 1993 he was appointed Foreign Minister. In 1998, he was a member of the Executive Council of the Afghan Loya Jirga representing the Ex-King Zaher Shah, now Father of the Nation. In the post-Bonn Interim Administration, he served as Vice Chairman and Finance Minister and after the Emergency Loya Jirga (2002) he became the Vice President of the Transitional Islamic State, Chairman of the Independent Civil Services and Administrative Reform Commission, member of the National Security Council and advisor to the Central Statistics Office and the Afghan Economic Cooperation Committee. In 2005, he was appointed Minister of Commerce.

H.E. Dr. Zalmai RASSOUL- Minister of Foreign Affairs

Dr.Zalmai Rassoul was born in Kabul. Having attended Istiqlal French High School, he was awarded a scholarship at the Paris Medical School and received his M.D. in 1973. In 1980, he founded and published the monthly publication "Afghan Reality" to inform the international community about the plight of the Afghan community. From 1998, Dr. Rassoul devoted his full attention to the convening of the Emergency Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly) as the director of the Secretariat of His Majesty, Mohammad Zaher Shah, the Former King of Afghanistan. Prior to the Bonn Conference, His Majesty dispatched numerous delegations to world capitals, Afghanistan’s neighbors, and Afghanistan itself to build support for the convening of the Emergency Loya Jirga. Dr. Rassoul accompanied President Karzai, at that time a leading member of the Executive Committee of the Loya Jirga, on those missions. He was appointed National Security Advisor in 2002. He took over the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in January 2010.

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H.E. Dr. Rangin SPANTA- National Security Advisor

Rangin Dadfar Spanta is currently President Hamid Karzai's Afghan National Security Advisor. Previously, he served as Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs. Spanta was born in 1954 in the Karokh district of Afghanistan's western province of Herat. His father was elected to Afghanistan's National Assembly in the 1960s during the reign of King Mohammad Zahir. Spanta completed his early education (primary and secondary schooling) in Herat, and then he enrolled in Kabul University. He has a degree from Kabul University as well as a doctorate degree from RWTH Aachen University, where he spent 13 years there teaching as a professor of political science. Spanta also served as a spokesperson for the Alliance for Democracy in Afghanistan and was active in Germany's Green Party. In early 2005, after the Taliban were removed from power, Spanta returned to Afghanistan and began to teach at Kabul University. Later he was chosen to become a Senior Advisor on International Affairs to President Hamid Karzai, until he was eventually nominated to become Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2006.

Dr. Muhammad Omar Zakhilwal - Minister of Finance

Dr. Omar Zakhilwal approved by the MPs and appointed as the Minister of Finance of Afghanistan Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, who was appointed as acting minister of finance by the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on the 27th of Dalwa 1387, has comfortably won vote of confidence in the parliament on the 12th of Hoot 1387 and been approved as the Minister of Finance. He received 144 votes of confidence out of 198 polled by MPs. He described his mission as the minister

H.E. Dr. Farooq WARDAK - Minister of Education

H.E. Minister Farooq Wardak was born in Wardag Province in 1959. In 1986, H.E. graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy in Punjab University, Pakistan. While working with the United Nations from 1996 to 2001 in Pakistan, he received his Masters Degree in Administration from Preston University. H.E. has held a number of key positions in Afghanistan’s development and reconstruction, including Director of the Constitutional Commission Secretariat and Secretariat of the Constitutional Loya Jirga (2002-2004), the grand Assembly that ratified the constitution; Cabinet Secretary and Director General of Office of Administrative Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2005); and Minister of State for the Parliament.

H.E. Mr. Abdul Hadi ARGHANDIWAL ‎- Minister of Economy and Manpower

H.E. Mr. Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal ‎was born in 1952 in Kabul. He earned ‎BA in Economics in 1976 and was subsequently appointed as manager at the Planning ‎Ministry in 1977. He migrated to Pakistan after the civil war broke out, returning to serve ‎as the Minister of Finance in pre-Taliban Afghanistan. In 2008, Mr. Arghandiwal was elected as chairman of Islamic ‎Party.‎ He was appointed Minister of Economy and Manpower in 2010.

H.E. Dawood Ali NAJAFI - Minister of Transport and Aviation

Daud Ali Najafi, son of Salman Ali was born 17 Feb. 1968 in Afghanistan. He left Afghanistan in the 1980s for Pakistan, where he received most of his education as a refugee. He has a MBBS (Medical Science) from University of Balochestan in Pakistan and a MA Islamic Studies from university of Peshawar in Pakistan. While in Pakistan he served as the director of Sehat Hospital for Afghan Refugees. He headed the secretariat of IEC for five years. Najafi has working experience with the United Nations. Minister Najafi is fluent in Farsi, Pashtu, Urdu, and English.

H.E. Amirzai SANGIN- Minister of Communications and Information Technology

Amirzai Sangin was born in Paktika. In 1972 he earned his degree in Electronics and Communications from Southern London University in the UK. He served as a teacher and later as the Director at the Communications Training Center from 1978 to 1980. From 1982, Mr. Sangin was employed in the communications field in Sweden. He served as a team member for the Shah Khalid Communications Project in Saudi Arabia. He was also an active member of the Swedish Committee in Afghanistan. After the fall of the Taliban, he returned to Kabul where he held training seminars for engineers of the Ministry of Communications, the Afghan Wireless Company and served as Senior Advisor to the Minister of Communications. Mr. Sangin was appointed as Director of Afghan TeleCom in July, 2004.

H.E. Wahidullah SHAHRANI- Minister of Mines

In late December 2008, Mr. Wahidullah Shahrani assumed the role of Minister of Commerce & Industry. He is principally responsible for the areas of trade, industry, investment, export promotion and the overall private sector development. Until recently (Jan 2005 – Dec 2008) he served as the Advisor to the President of Afghanistan on Finance as well as the Deputy Minister for Finance (Ministry of Finance). Mr. Shahrani was a key interlocutor for the international financial institutions and bilateral donors. He played an instrumental role in shaping the nation’s poverty reduction strategy – Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) and balancing the policy priorities within the medium-term fiscal framework (MTFF). He was the Alternate Governor for the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, and the World Bank. He was also the focal point of Afghanistan with all the major International development Agencies such as USAID, DFID, CIDA, BMZ, SIDA etc. Immediately prior to those roles, Mr. Shahrani served as the First Deputy Governor of the central bank (Da Afghanistan Bank) where he was responsible for monetary policy, banking supervision, market operations as well as Alternate Governor of Afghanistan at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While residing in U.K., he served as lec-turer in Economics at the Faculty of Business & Economics, Richmond Upon Thames College, Kingston University for two years. He holds his academic qualifications in economics, banking & finance from U.K. and Pakistan. He remains keenly interested in socio-economic research, sub-national gover-nance, administrative reform, economic development, monetary policy and fiscal policy.

H.E. Mohammad ISMAIL KHAN- Minister of Water and Energy

Mohammad Ismail was born in Herat in 1948. He earned his degree from the Cadet University in 1970 and subsequently joined the army in Herat. When his division revolted against the Soviets, he joined the resistance. After the formation of the government in 1992, he acquired the military rank of General and was appointed Herat's governor and Fourth Corp’s Commander. In post-Taliban Afghanistan, he was again appointed as the governor of Herat and commander of Corps Number 6.

H.E. Hassan Abdullahi- Minister of Urban Development

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H.E. Muhammad Asif RAHIMI - Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock

Mohammad Asif Rahimi was born in 1959 and was raised in Kabul, Afghanistan where in he earned a degree from Kabul University. He completed his post-graduate studies in Management of Development Programs from Omaha University in the US. Mr. Rahimi’s career was mainly from the area of development and humanitarian relief both in Afghanistan and abroad. For over a decade he was a manager of CARE operations of CARE-USA in Afghanistan. In 2001, he moved to Canada and became South Asia regional manager of CARE-Canada. Returning to Afghanistan in early 2005, Mr. Rahimi joined the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) and became the head of National Solidarity Program (NSP). He eventually served as the Deputy Minister for Programs in MRRD, a profile in which he leads all of the ministry’s national and regional initiatives in rural development, infrastructure, and economic regeneration, since April of 2006. Mr. Rahimi’s contribution to policy and strategy development within the government of Afghanistan includes playing a leading role in the Policy Action Group discussions, the development of the Comprehensive Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) initiative, and the development and operation of the Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS).

H.E. Habibullah GHALIB- Minister of Justice

Justice Minister Habibullah Ghalib was born on 7 May 1940 in Qazi Khail village, in Kapisa Province. In 1960, he was admitted to Kabul University, majoring in Islamic Studies and Law. In 1964, he joined the Ministry of Justice. Between the years 1967 - 1969, Minister Ghalib pursued his Graduate Studies at Al Azhar University of Cairo. He resumed his career as Chief of the office of the Minister, and later as Senior Adviser to the Department of Legislation and the Institute of Legislative Affairs. Minister Ghalib served as Deputy Attorney General for Investigation and Petitions in 1979. While in Pakistan, he began serving the Afghan refugees in varied capacities. With associated, he established the "Cultural Council of Afghanistan Resistance", an influential organization broadly involved in promoting the educational, scholastic and cultural interests of the Afghan refugees and of the greater Afghan cause. Minister Ghalib then went on to serve as the head of Madina Monawara orphanage and of Department of Education of the orphanages run by Asra Charity, teaching as a university professor at the same time. Upon formation of the Interim Government in Exile, Mr. Ghalib was called upon to assume the office of Director General of Legislation Department of the Ministry of Justice. He returned to Afghanistan in 1992 and was named as Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Supervision of Implementation of the Law and Director General of the Department of Protection of the Law and Legal and Judicial Affairs. In late 2001, pursuant to the establishment of the Interim Authority and within the course of the subsequent years, Minister Ghalib held diverse portfolios with the Transitional and elected governments. He served as a member of the Independent Legal and Judicial Reform Commission, and Chairman of the Committee on Reform of the Laws. He then entered the Legal Consultative Board to the President of Afghanistan as a member, and later on as Chairman of the said Board, while simultaneously holding the position of Senior Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Justice.

H.E. Obaidullah OBAID- Minister of Higher Education

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H.E. Dr. Sayed Makhdoom RAHEEN - Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism

Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen was born in 1946 in Kabul city. After undergraduate studies in Afghanistan, he received a masters and Ph.D from Tehran University in 1973. Afterwards, he served as a lecturer in Kabul university. He then served as the director of Arts and Culture of Information and Culture ministry. Dr. Raheen participated in the drafting of constitution during presidency of Daoud Khan, and participated in the Loya Jirga in 1977. After the Soviet invasion he migrated to Pakistan, and made endeavors for the unity of Mujahiddin. After the foundation of Islamic Unity of Afghanistan, he was a member of the high council and the Director of Cultural Committee. He was the Director of Radio Free Kabul, transmitted by Mujahiddin from 1992 to 1994. During the interim government of Hazrat Mujadiddi he was a special advisor. A poet and popular writer, Dr. Raheen has carried out many research works in the arenas of culture, Literature, history and Islamic Orders. He has published several essays and books. He founded the Peace and Democracy Association for Afghanistan with the help of partners in 1996, and served as the Director. In 1998 he became a member of the executive committee of Loya Jirga in Rome. He has served as the Minister of Information and Culture since the interim government. He was elected as the Director of the Council of Kabul residents in September 2003. He was given a medal of freedom of expression and culture by the Father of the Nation in 2004.

H.E. Dr. Suraya DALIL- Minister of Public Health

Suraya Dalil was born 1970 in Kabul and went to medical school in Afghanistan in the late 1980s. 1992, just months after she graduated from the Kabul Medical Institute, the Najibullah regime fell and the Muhajedin took over. Dalil moved with her family to Mazar-e-Sharif in the more stable Balkh Province. There, Dalil remained working with a number of international NGOs such as San Frontieres and International Organization for Migration. She then began working with the UN's International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in 1994, mainly in refugee camps operation. With the arrival of the Taliban in the mid to late 1990s, Dalil was compelled to move to Pakistan, arriving in Islamabad in 1998. However, Dalil continued her medical training in Afghanistan and work with the Pakistan-based UNICEF Afghanistan office. In late 2001, Taliban’s fall enabled Dalil to go back to her childhood apartment in Kabul, helping spearhead a national maternal mortality survey published in Lancet as a UNICEF Safe Motherhood project officer . She then went to Harvard School of Public Health as a Presidential Scholar, studying health care management. She completed her MA in Harvard in mid-2005, and then she returned to Afghanistan and joined UNICEF as a project officer for policy and training, a senior national position. She was then an adviser to the Minister of Health and was a coordinator to UNICEF's involvement in health system development.

H.E. Mohammad Yousuf NIAZI - Minister of Hajj and Islamic Affairs

Dr Mohammad Yousuf Niazi, born in ‎Kama district of Nangarhar province in 1959, received early education from the Betab ‎School and Imam Abu Hanifa Seminary in Kabul. He went to Saudi Arabia for higher ‎education and earned a Bachelor's degree in Sharia from the Islamic University in ‎Madina. He did Masters and Doctorate work in Islamic Studies from the Umm Al-Qura ‎University, where he also served as a teacher in 2001.‎ From 1996 to 2000, he served at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Saudi Arabia. H.E. ‎earned several letters of appreciation and medals related to his work. Fluent in Pashto, Dari ‎Arabic and speaks English. He is the author of several books in these three languages.

H.E. Arsala JAMAL- Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs

H.E. Minister Arsala Jamal was born in ‎‎1966 in Paktika province. H.E. obtained a BS in Economics from ‎the University of Malaya in 1992 and worked from Peshawar for Nebraska University ‎for three years. ‎ As governor of Khost from 2006 to 2008, he was an active member of H.E. President Karzai's election campaign team.

H.E. Hosn Banu GHAZANFAR- Minister of Women’s Affairs

H.E. Minister Husn Banu Ghazanfar was born in Balkh on February 1, 1957. she obtained her BA and Master's degree on Literature and Sociology from Stawarpool Qafqaaz in 1983. Right after she obtained her Master's degree she became the scientific cadre of the Literature Faculty of Kabul University. After two years, she obtained her Doctorate of Philology. In 2003, she was appointed as the Head of the Literature Faculty and was working in this post until she was appointed as the Minister for the Ministry of Women's Affairs. In addition, she has worked as a member of the High Council of the Ministry of Higher Education, member of Speranto International Association of Women, member of the International Association of Turk Zabanan and member of the Board of Directors of Hakim Naser Khesro Balkhi Association. She is fluent in Dari, Pashto, Uzbek and Russian and has knowledge of Turkish and English.

Jamahir ANWARI - Minister of Refugees and Repatriation

Anwari was born in Andkhoe district of northern Faryab province in 1955. After his graduation from Pharmacy Faculty of Kabul University in 1976, he has since then worked as a pharmacist at the Department of Mother and Child Health. He was an employee of the blood bank in 1977, head of pharmacy affairs department for the northern zone in 1983. Since 2006, he was head of Medicine Affairs at the General Directorate of Pharmacy in the Ministry of Public Health. He was also the financial head of the union of Afghan Pharmacists, leader of Turkmen Peace Council and member of the leading delegation of carpet traders. Anwari was also member of the emergency Loya Jirga held in 2004.

H.E. Amena Safi AFZALI- Acting Minister of Disabled, Martyrs and Social Affairs

H.E. Amena Safi Afzali was born in 1957 in Herat city. She completed her higher education in faculty of science of Kabul University in 1978. After she graduated, she taught at Mehri High school in Herat province. Ms. Afzali established the 'Muslim Sisters Association' overseas, continuing their activities till 1992. She then established the 'Islamic Movement of Women of Afghanistan' in Kabul in 1993, defending women's rights and providing for growth of Afghan girls potentialities as well as their involvement in political and cultural activities. Minister Afzali is also the founder of Educational and Training Centers for women, as well as the first free school in Kabul in 1994. Several publications, such as 'Rahrawan Samia', 'Al-Momenat', 'Paiwand', and 'Mother' were established and released under her surveillance. She returned to Afghanistan in 2002 and began to serve as commissioner with the Independent Human Rights Commission until 2004. Thereafter, she became key member of the Directorate of Cultural Foundation of Jamee. In 2004, she served as the Minister of the Ministry of Youth Affairs for one and half year until it integrated with the Ministry of Information and Culture. She also played a key role in the Readiness Commission for Peace Jirga in 2006. She has taken over the presidency of the Government High Commission for Children and Youth, as well as became a member of the board of Red Crescent Society.

H.E. Wais Ahmad BARMAK- Minister of Rural Development and Rehabilitation

H.E. Wais Ahmad Barmak was born 1972 in Kabul. He holds a BSc degree with Honors in Architecture from the Department of Architecture at Kabul University and an MSc degree in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. H.E. Mr. Barmak began his professional career in 1993, working for such organizations as the International Committee of the Red Cross. He can speak Dari, Pashto and English.

H.E. Gen. KHODAIDAD- Minister of Anti-Narcotics

Colonel General Khodaidad was born in Oruzgan Province in 1955. General Khodaidad holds graduate degrees from National Defense Academy (NDA), The India Military Academy (IMA), and Fronza Military Academy in Moscow. From 1977 to 1992, Colonel General Khodaidad served in the Afghan National Army. Colonel General Khodaidad has been awarded 52 prestigious medals in different fields. In 1992, he was appointed Minister of National Security of Islamic State of Afghanistan, before moving to the United Kingdom, returning to Afghanistan in 2001.

H.E. Anwarul Haq Ahadi - Minister of Commerce and Industries

Professor Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, son of Qazi Abdul Haq, was born in 1951 in the Sarobi district of Kabul province. Prof. Ahadi completed his primary and secondary education at Hibibiya High School in Kabul. He earned his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Economics and Political Sciences from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He also obtained a Masters Degree in Financial Affairs and Management as well as a Doctorate in Political Sciences from the Northwestern University in the United States. Prof. Ahadi served as Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at Carlton University in 1984. He worked as Banking Director at the Continental Elona Bank of Chicago from 1985 to 1987. He was then Professor of Political Sciences at Providence University from 1987 to 2002. From 2002 to December 2004, Prof. Ahadi served as the Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank. In December 2004, he was appointed Minister of Finance in the new government of President Karzai. Prof. Ahadi has published various articles and essays in national and foreign academic journals, bulletins and newspapers as well as several academic books.

H.E. Eng. Abdul Qudus HAMIDI - Minister of Public Welfare

H.E. Engineer Abdul Qudus Hamidi was born in Sheberghan, Jozjan in 1956. After graduating from the Chemical Technology Department with a Bachelor’s Degree in 1979, H.E. Eng. Hamidi worked in the Oil and Liquid Gas Department of the Ministry of Commerce.

In 1983, H.E. received his Master’s Degree from Kabul-polytechnic University and went on to serve as the General Manager of the Ministry of urban Development (Technical) Mines Thermal Generation program. Following this, H.E. Engineer Hamidi was appointed as Macrorayan residential area Surveillance General Director, worked as Head Engineer for Coca- Cola KAM, and served as a professor at Balkh University.

In 2004, H.E. was appointed as Deputy Director of Mazarsharif Fertilizer Electricity Industries, twice later serving as Director. Between 2004 and 2005, H.E. Eng. Hamidi served as the Director of North Gas and Oil Disquisition. In 2006, H.E. was appointed as Advisor to the Minister of Mines, and in October of that same year, H.E. was appointed Deputy Minister of Sectoral Affairs in Ministry of Mines. In June of 2010, H.E. Engineer Hamidi was appointed as the Minister of Public Works.

H.E. is fluent in several native languages, including Pashto, Dari, Uzbek, Turkmen, English, and Russian.