Abdul Qadeer Fitrat - Governor of Da Afghanistan Bank (Central Bank of Afghanistan)
 

Abdul Qadeer Fitrat was nominated as Governor of the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) by the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in early September and was confirmed by the Parliament on November 17, 2007. Governor Fitrat had previously served as First Deputy Governor and Governor of DAB in 1995 and 1996 respectively. Governor Fitrat also worked as Assistant Research Coordinator for a USAID-supported project, called ESSP in Peshawar, Pakistan, Chairman of Bank–e-Millie Afghan (BMA) in Kabul, Afghanistan in early 1990s and a Consultant for Economist to the International Monetary Fund in Washington in late 1990s. He also served as a consumer banker to the First Union National Bank in Northern Virginia during 2000-2001.  
Most recently, Governor Fitrat served as an Advisor to the Executive Director at the World Bank for the last nearly three and a half years.
Governor Fitrat attended primary school in Badakhshan and secondary school in Kabul. He holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan and a Masters degree in Social & Applied Economics with an emphasis on monetary economics from the Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio in the United States.

Mohibullah Safi – First Deputy Governor of the Da Afghanistan Bank

Mohibullah Safi was born in the year 1975 at kunar province. He migrated to Pakistan during Russian invasion. He did his undergraduate and master degrees in Computer Sciences from the reputed institution, University of the Punjab in 1997. Currently he is studying MA economics from Peshawar University on DL basis.
He worked as system analyst at a US-based firm NeuroDyne for almost a year. He was a lecturer at Tameer-e-Seerat Model Degree College, for almost two years, then he joined the Islamic University for Science and Technology as assistant professor for 2 years.
He worked for the USAID-Afghanistan Economic Governance Project at the central bank for two years and then joined the Da Afghanistan Bank as Deputy Director General Monetary Policy Department, in this capacity he worked on:

• GDDS (General Data Dissemination System)
• Five year strategic plan
• Monetary Policy Formulation
• Establishment of statistical base for monetary and external sector.

He has closely worked with the IMF on SMP and PRGF program