Ajmal Ahmady
Ajmal Ahmady اجمل احمدی | |
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| File:Ajmal Ahmady.jpg Ajmal Ahmady (R) | |
| Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank | |
| Assumed office 3 June 2020 | |
| President | Ashraf Ghani |
| Minister of Commerce and Industry | |
| In office 6 February 2019 – 3 June 2020 | |
| President | Ashraf Ghani |
| Senior Economic Advisor | |
| In office 30 January 2014 – 6 February 2019 | |
| President | Ashraf Ghani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 April 1978 Ghazni, Afghanistan |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Profession | Diplomat |
Ajmal Ahmady (Persian/Pashto: اجمل احمدی) is an Afghan diplomat and politician who was the acting Minister of Commerce and Industry of Afghanistan and is the Governor of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, Da Afghanistan Bank.[1][2]
Early life
Ajmal Ahmady was born in Ghazni Province of Afghanistan and studied his primary in Ghazni city. He has a Master's of Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a Master of Economics and Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelors in Mathematics and Economics from University of California, Los Angeles.[3]
Career
Private business and diplomacy
He previously spent eight years in the asset management industry investing in global macro, emerging markets, and corporate strategies for some of the largest asset managers in the world. He has also worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, the World Bank, an EM private equity group, the US Treasury Department and the Afghan Ministry of Finance.
Senior economic adviser
After the establishment of National Unity Government, Mr. Ahmady has served as the senior advisor for banking and financial affairs to President Ashraf Ghani for four years. In this position, Mr. Ahmady worked to improve the business environment, where he led commercial reform efforts, including making changes to Afghanistan’s commercial procedure code, municipal law, insolvency law, limited liabilities law, minerals law, and hydrocarbons law.
Minister of Commerce and Industry
Mr. Ahmady has worked as acting minister of Industry and Commerce of Afghanistan.[4][5][6][7] restructuring the Industrial Parks Directorate, signed trilateral MOUs with our electricity provider DABS and the Chamber of Industry and Mines, and provide greater funding for the development of new industrial parks.
Mr. Ahmady was instrumental in creating Afghanistan's National Air Corridor Program that now exports $100 million per year to more than 50 markets around the world and renegotiating a number of transit agreements that should help to reduce transit costs for traders and helped export $1 billion for the first time in the country's history (2020).[8]
Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank
On presidential decree 544 on 3rd June, 2020 Mr. Ajmal Ahmady was appointed acting governor of Da Afghanistan Bank, the central bank of Afghanistan, which regulates all banking and money handling operations in Afghanistan.[9] Mr. Ahmady purged the bank of long systematic corruption by removing those with ongoing cases and referring them to the Attorney General's office.
Personal life
Ahmady is Muslim and fluent in English and Dari.
References
- ^ "EXECUTIVE BOARD | Da Afghanistan Bank". dab.gov.af.
- ^ "Ajmal Ahmady : High Economics Council : شورای عالی اقتصادی". hec.gov.af.
- ^ http://www.oecd.org/eurasia-week/whos-who/Ajmal-Ahmady-BIO.pdf
- ^ "Interview with H.E. Ajmal Ahmady, Minister of Industry and Commerce". www.kakaradvocates.com. August 28, 2019.
- ^ Muir, James. "SpiceJet to operate cargo flights between Delhi and Kabul | AIR CARGO WEEK".
- ^ "Afghanistan-India cargo flights to operate from June 15". in.news.yahoo.com.
- ^ Bank, Asian Development (May 11, 2020). "ADB President, Afghanistan President Discuss COVID-19 Support; $40 Million Grant". Asian Development Bank.
- ^ https://www.kakaradvocates.com/interview-with-h-e-ajmal-ahmady-minister-of-industry-and-commerce/
- ^ Supreme Council. "Supreme Council | Da Afghanistan Bank". Dab.gov.af. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
External links
- Ajmal Ahmady on X
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