Ashraf Ghani

Ashraf Ghani is an Afghan-American politician, economist, writer, and university teacher born in 1949 in Logar Province. He holds citizenship in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the United States. Ghani served as the President of Afghanistan and was a supreme commander in the Afghan Armed Forces during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). He participated in the 2017 SCO Summit and ran in the 2014 and 2019 Afghan presidential elections as an independent politician.

He is educated at Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, and Harvard Business School, holding a Doctor of Philosophy. Ghani has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Aarhus University, Kabul University, and Columbia University. His notable works include *Production and domination*, *Fixing failed states*, *Afghanistan A Lexicon*, and *Rawzanahʹī bih niẓām-i ʻādil*. He is married to Rula Ghani, and they have two children, including Mariam Ghani. He follows Sunni Islam.