Said Tayeb Jawad
| Said Tayeb Jawad | |
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| 13th Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States | |
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In office December 4, 2003 – September 22, 2010 |
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| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Isaq Sharhyar |
| Succeeded by | Eklil Ahmad Hakimi |
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In office 2002–2003 |
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| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Succeeded by | Mohammad Omar Daudzai |
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| Born | 1958 Kandahar, Afghanistan |
| Spouse(s) | Shamim Jawad |
| Children | Iman Jawad |
| Profession | Academic and Diplomat |
Said Tayeb Jawad (Persian: سید طیب جواد, born 1958) is the Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United Kingdom. He previously served as the Senior Political and Foreign Policy Advisor to His Excellency Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah. He was also the CEO of Capitalize LLC, a strategic consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. He was appointed Afghan Ambassador to the United States on December 4, 2003, by President Hamid Karzai and served as Ambassador until September 22, 2010. He also served as Afghanistan’s non-resident Ambassador to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. He was Chief of Staff to the Afghan President in 2002 and 2003.
In October 2010, he joined Harvard University's Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the John F. Kennedy School of Government as the inaugural Fisher Family Fellow. In February 2011, he became Diplomat-in-Residence at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He also currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Capitalize LLC, a Washington-based strategic consulting company and the Chairman of the Foundation for Afghanistan. He is also a Global Political Strategist at APCO Worldwide. and a member of Advisory Board of the Concordia Summit. As corporate CEO of CAPITALIZE, he led a dynamic team of international business experts advising governments, international companies and investors on politics, defense, security, market entry, commercial opportunities, and development strategies in Central Asia and the Gulf regions, including Afghanistan.
Said Tayeb Jawad was born in Kandahar, and was educated at Lycée Esteqlal and at the School of Law and Political Sciences in Kabul University. In 1980, shortly after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he left the country and went into exile in Germany, where he studied law at the University of Münster.
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