Career
Raz worked from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. [2] From 2010 until 2013,she worked with an international development organization in the US. [2] She is an advocate for gender equality,women's education and human rights. [1] She has worked to assist women develop sustainable work and participate in society. [1]
In 2013,she was appointed Deputy Spokesperson and Director of Communications to President Hamid Karzai,the first woman to hold the positions. [2] [4] [5] She became Chief of Staff in November 2014 and was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Cooperation in March 2016 at age 30. [2] [6] [7] In March 2018,she was part of a delegation of Afghan women to visit Washington DC,where she spoke about the need for more women in Afghan political life and the need for the rest of the world to consider them partners,not merely victims or recipients of aid. [8]
On 31 December 2018,President Ashraf Ghani appointed Raz as Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations,replacing Ambassador Mahmoud Saikal. She is the first woman to hold the position. [3] [9] [10] [11] In March 2019,she was unanimously selected as vice president of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. [12]
Raz was appointed the Afghan ambassador to the United States on 26 July 2021. [13] Following the 2021 fall of Kabul that toppled the Islamic Republic and ushered in the return of the Taliban,Raz continued in her post despite the previous Afghan government no longer having control over the country. On 18 February 2022,Raz was reported to have resigned from her ambassadorial position. [14]
On 14 April 2022,Raz was announced as director of the newly established Afghanistan Policy Lab,an Afghanistan-focused policy institute. The lab is a joint venture between Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. [15]
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