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Ajmal Ahmady
Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank
Assumed office
3 June 2020
PresidentAshraf Ghani
Minister of Commerce and Industry
In office
6 February 2019 – 3 June 2020
PresidentAshraf Ghani
Senior Economic Advisor
In office
30 January 2014 – 6 February 2019
PresidentAshraf Ghani
Personal details
Born (1978-05-10) 10 May 1978 (age 46)
Ghazni, Afghanistan
Political partyIndependent
Alma materHarvard University, University of California, Los Angeles
ProfessionDiplomat

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 an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master of Economics and Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and 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. Ahmadi 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 the 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.

Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank

On presidential decree 544 on 3rd June, 2020 Mr. Ajmal Ahmadi was appointed as Acting Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank, the central bank of Afghanistan. It regulates all banking and money handling operations in Afghanistan.[8]. Mr. Ahmady purged the Bank of long systematic corruption by removing those with ongoing cases and referred to the Attorney General's Office.

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