Biography of dr ashraf ghani

President of Afghanistan from to

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai^[a] (born 19 May ) is an Afghan former politician, academic, and economist who served as the president of Afghanistan from September until August , when his government was overthrown by the Taliban.

Ghani was born in Logar, Afghanistan. After his grade-school education in Afghanistan, he spent much of his time abroad, studying in Lebanon and the United States. After receiving his PhD in cultural anthropology from Columbia University in , he taught at various institutions and was an associate professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.^[2] For much of the s, he worked at the World Bank.

In December , he returned to Afghanistan after the collapse of the Taliban government.

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He then served as finance minister in Hamid Karzai's cabinet. He resigned in December to become the dean of Kabul University. In , Ghani ran in the Afghan presidential election but came in fourth.^[