H.E. Dr. Omar Zakhilwal
Minister of Finance
Dr. Omar Zakhilwal is Minister of Finance as
well as Chief Economic Advisor to the President. Prior to his current
position, Dr. Zakhiwal served as the President of the Afghanistan
Investment Support Agency (AISA), a member of the Supreme Council of Da
Afghanistan Bank, Acting Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, and
as Chief Advisor to the Minister of Rural Development of Afghanistan.
Since 2003, Dr. Zakhilwal has been part of many initiatives pertaining to economics and development issues in the country. He was the author of the first Afghanistan National Human Development Report, released by UNDP in February 2007. He also worked as an Afghan counterpart to the Ottawa based North-South community-led development project in sustainable peace building, as well as on a number of other development related initiatives. Moreover, he has done consulting work for the World Bank, UNDP, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and other organizations.
Dr. Zakhilwal has written numerous articles in English on political, economic and social issues in Afghanistan for newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Al-Ehram and many other publications.
Dr. Zakhilwal obtained his BA (Honors), MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Winnipeg, Queen’s University and Carleton University in Canada respectively. Prior to his return to Afghanistan, Dr. Zakhilwal served as a Senior Research Economist at Statistics Canada and taught economics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
For more information, please explore the Ministry of Finance’s official website:
www.mof.gov.af
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