Ramazan Jumazada
Posted by Khaama on January 1, 2011 3 Comments
Ramazan Jumazada
I was born in 1978 in Ghorbandak Village, Shibar District of Bamyan Province. I completed my primary and intermediate education in Kabul and high school in Pulikhumri of Baghlan Province. After taking the University test in 1995, I was accepted to the Balkh Medical College. In 1998 during my 4th year at the Balkh Medical College, (1995-1998) Mazar-i-Sharif was occupied by Taliban and we had to leave Mazar for Pakistan, leaving my education incomplete.
After our family migrated to Pakistan I took courses of business and computer programs. I also taught school subject at the Aga Khan School and Hoap Foundation. I was an active member of Regional Advisory Committee of Aga khan Education Program (For Pakistan). Additionally, I was deputy of Afghan Rehabilitation Program (ARP), which was affiliated to the Aga khan Regional Council for Pakistan.
After the collapse of Taliban Regime in 2001 we returned back to Afghanistan in March 2002, I was employed by a local NGO as a Program Officer, and in July 2002 I was appointed by His Highness, the Aga Khan, as member National Council for Economic Portfolio in Afghanistan. The economic portfolio mission was directed at strategies to move Afghans from a survival economy to a saving economy.
Meanwhile, from 2007-2010 I was a Board Member of Focus Humanitarian Assistance for Afghanistan, FOCUS is affiliated with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) a group of private, non-denominational agencies working to improve living conditions and opportunities for people in specific regions of the developing world. In 2005 I joined Center for International Private Enterprise as Program Manager, and within few years I was promoted as Program Director, CIPE is an affiliate to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose mission was to strengthen democracy around the world through private enterprise and market-oriented reforms.
In 2009 I joined Chemonics International (one of the major US development donors) as a Trade Specialist, The Chemonics Project called ASAP was funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) , and the project objective was increasing sales of Afghan agriculture products, creating jobs and attracting new agribusiness investments to Afghanistan.
As I was planning to offer myself as a candidate for the parliamentary elections of 2010, from the Kabul Province in June of 2010 I resigned from Chemonics and prepared for the parliamentary election campaign. I was successful in the election and am now an active member in the Parliament of Afghanistan
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