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May 19, 1949 Logar, Afghanistan 74 years old
President of Afghanistan
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Ashraf Ghani - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Ashraf Ghani
- Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (Pashto/Dari: ???? ???? ??? ???????; born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician and the current President of Afghanistan, elected on 21 September 2014.
- An anthropologist by education, he previously served as Minister of Finance and the Chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002, Ghani was a professor of anthropology at numerous institutions (mostly Johns Hopkins University), and later started working with the World Bank.
- As the Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery after the collapse of the Taliban government.He is the co-founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness, an organization set up in 2005 to improve the ability of states to serve their citizens.
- In 2005 he gave a TED talk, in which he discussed how to rebuild a broken state such as Afghanistan.
- He is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, an independent initiative hosted by the United Nations Development Programme.
- In 2013 he was ranked 50th in an online poll to name the world's top 100 intellectuals conducted by Foreign Policy magazine and second in a similar poll run by Prospect magazine.An independent politician, Ghani came in fourth in the 2009 presidential election, behind Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, and Ramazan Bashardost.
- In the first round of the 2014 presidential election, Ghani secured 35% of the vote, second to Abdullah who secured 45% of the votes cast.
- However, in the second round of 2014 presidential election Ghani secured around 55.3% of the votes while Abdullah secured around 44.7% of the votes cast.
- As a result, chaos ensued and United States had to intervene to form unity government in Afghanistan.
