Omar Samad is the former Senior Advisor to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah,the former Chief Executive of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2020. He served as the Afghan Ambassador to Canada from 2004 to 2009,and to France from 2009 to 2011. He was a Senior Central Asia Fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington,D.C. 2013-14,after working as Senior Afghan Expert at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. 2012-13.
Erlan Abilfayizuly Idrissov is a Kazakh politician who served as Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan 1999 to 2002 and 2012 to 2016.
Nanguyalai Tarzi –was a high-ranking Afghan diplomat who was the Afghan Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations office and other international organisations in Geneva. Tarzi has been the Ambassador of Afghanistan to India,and before that he was Permanent Representative to United Nations at Geneva and Afghan Ambassador to Switzerland,Ambassador of Afghanistan to Pakistan and Director of the United Nations Information Centres (UNIC) in Tehran,Iran. From 1980s to 1990s,Tarzi was Permanent Observer of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to the United Nations,Geneva,Switzerland and United Nations,Vienna,Austria and Senior Political Adviser and Deputy Permanent Observer of OIC to the United Nations,New York,United States of America. In the 1970s,Tarzi was the Afghan Diplomat in Washington D.C.,United States of America.
Jeremy K. B. Kinsman is a Canadian former career diplomat. He was the Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2000–2002) and the Canadian Ambassador to the European Union (2002–2006).
Guillermo Enrique Rishchynski Oller is a Canadian diplomat.
David S. Wright is a Canadian former diplomat. He served most recently as Canada's permanent representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 1997 to 2003.
William Edward Bauer is a Canadian former diplomat. He was concurrently appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Laos and Thailand then Myanmar. He was later appointed ambassador to Korea.
David Stuart was the Ambassador of Australia to Austria from 2012 to 2016. Prior,he was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Australia in Washington,D.C.,between 2007 and 2010. Stuart was appointed to the position in July 2007. Before his role as Deputy Chief of Mission,Stuart served in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1981),was the Third Secretary at the Embassy of Australia in Madrid (1981–1984),a member of the Australian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council (1988–1992),Counsellor for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Australia in Jakarta (1997–1999),Australian ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1999–2002),and the First Assistant Secretary at the International Security Division in Canberra.
Zalmai Aziz is an Afghan diplomat and is the current ambassador of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office in Geneva and to Switzerland. He is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the Russian Federation and the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan.
Wang Yi is a senior Chinese diplomat and politician. He formerly served as China's Vice Foreign Minister,Ambassador to Japan and Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office. He has served as the Foreign Minister since March 2013 and a State Councilor since March 2018.
Afghanistan and Canada established diplomatic relations in 1968. In 2003,Canada opened its embassy in Kabul and appointed its first resident ambassador. Afghanistan appointed its first resident ambassador to Canada in 2002. In August 2021,Canada closed its embassy in Kabul with the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan.
Ron Hoffmann is a Canadian diplomat.
Vygaudas Ušackas is a former Lithuanian diplomat,from September 2013 to October 2017 he served as the European Union's Ambassador to Russia. Prior to that he served as the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan. Prior to heading Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs,Ušackas was the Ambassador of Lithuania to the United States and Mexico from 2001 through 2006,then Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Founder of Mission Siberia.
Stewart Wheeler is a Canadian diplomat,and currently serves as Chief of Protocol of Canada.
Earl Anthony Wayne is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs,Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan,Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August,2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31,2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30,2015. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service:Career Ambassador. He is currently a Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service and works with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,the Atlantic Council,the Center for Strategic and International Studies,and as an independent consultant,speaker and writer. Wayne worked as an adviser for HSBC Latin America on improving management of financial crime risk from 2015 until 2019 and with the American Foreign Service Association from 2017 to 2019.
Randolph Bruce Mank is a global business executive and a three-time former Canadian ambassador. He founded MankGlobal Inc. consultancy in 2015.
Salāhuddīn Rabbānī is an Afghan diplomat and politician who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan from February 2015 to October 2019.
Mahmoud Saikal,was the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations from October 2015 until February 2019. Saikal is a senior Afghan diplomat and an international development specialist with over two decades of experience with governments,international organisations,private sector,and civil society.
Tore Hattrem is a Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Conservative Party. In 2018 he was appointed as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,the top civil servant in the ministry. He formerly served as State Secretary and as Permanent Representative of Norway to the United Nations in New York,and was President of the UNICEF Executive Board in 2018.
Roya Rahmani is an Afghan diplomat who has served as Afghanistan's first female ambassador to the United States and non-resident ambassador to Mexico,Argentina,Colombia,and the Dominican Republic from December 2018 to July 2021. From 2016 to 2018,she served as Afghanistan's first female ambassador to Indonesia,first ever ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations,and non-resident ambassador to Singapore.
