List of ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States

The Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States, officially the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States of America, is the official representative of the President of Afghanistan to the President of the United States. The ambassador and the embassy staff at large work at the Afghan Embassy in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The current ambassador is H.E. Roya Rahmani, who succeeded Dr. Hamdullah Mohib in December 2018.

Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States of America
Flag of Afghanistan
Incumbent Roya Rahmani since 2018
Seat	Washington, D.C.
Nominator	President of Afghanistan
Inaugural holder	Abdul Hussain Aziz
Formation	1943
Website	www.embassyofafghanistan.org

List

No.	Name	Title	Appointment	Presentation	Termination	Appointer
Kingdom of Afghanistan
1	Abdul Hussain Aziz	Minister	1943	–	1946	King Mohammed Zahir Shah
2	Habibullah Khan Tarzi	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1946	1946	1953
3	Mohammed Kabir Ludin	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1953	–	1956
4	Najib Ullah	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1956	–	1958
5	Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1958	–	1963
6	Abdul Majid	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1963	–	1967
7	Abdullah Malikyar	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1967	–	1978
Republic of Afghanistan
7	Abdullah Malikyar	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1967	–	1978	King Mohammed Zahir Shah
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
8	Abdul Waheed Karim	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1978	–	1980	Nur Muhammad Taraki
9	Nur Ahmed Nur	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1980	–	1981	Babrak Karmal
–	Mohed Salem Spartak	Chargé d'affaires	1982	–	1984
–	Mohammad Haidar Rafiq	Chargé d'affaires	1984	–	1985
–	Mohammad Ashraf Samimi	Chargé d'affaires	1985	–	1986
10	Rouhullah Erfaqi	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1986	–	1987
11	Mia Gul	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	1988	–	1990	Mohammad Najibullah
–	Abdul Ghafoor Jawshan	Chargé d'affaires	1990	–	1992
Islamic State of Afghanistan
–	Abdul Rahim	Chargé d'affaires	1992	–	1994	Burhanuddin Rabbani
–	Yar Mohammad Mohabat	Chargé d'affaires	1994	–	1995
Northern Alliance of Afghanistan
–	None appointed 1995–2002
Afghan Transitional Administration
–	Haroun Amin	Chargé d'affaires	2002	–	2002	Hamid Karzai
12	Ishaq Shahyar	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	2002	–	4 December 2003
13	Said Tayeb Jawad	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	4 December 2003	–	2010
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
13	Said Tayeb Jawad	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	4 December 2003	–	22 September 2010	Hamid Karzai
–	Khojesta Fana Ebrahimkhel	Chargé d'affaires	22 September 2010	–	14 February 2011
14	Eklil Ahmad Hakimi	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	14 February 2011	23 February 2011	September 2015
15	Hamdullah Mohib	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	September 2015	September 2015	August 2018	Ashraf Ghani
–	Madina Qasimi	Chargé d'affaires	August 2018	August 2018	December 2018	Ashraf Ghani
16	Roya Rahmani	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	December 2018	December 2018	–	Ashraf Ghani

Chief of Protocol[1]

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