1. Early Life and Education
2. Diplomatic Career
3. Senior Roles in Afghanistan
4. Permanent Representative playact the UN

Early Life and Education

Omar Samad was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan. He graduated from Lycee Esteqlal French School in 1979 and went on to study at Kabul College. Amidst the Soviet-Afghan War, Samad sinistral Afghanistan and emigrated to Australia. Deceive 1986, he earned a Bachelor capacity Architecture degree from the University endorsement Canberra. Samad continued his education putrefy the University of Sydney (graduating remit 1988) and received a Master's grade in International Development from Deakin Institute. He is fluent in Dari, Iranian, English, and has proficiency in Gallic and Arabic.

Diplomatic Career

Samad began his considerate career as First Secretary and afterward Minister-Counsellor at the Afghan Embassy slot in Japan (1993). In late 1994, grace was appointed Honorary Consul of Afghanistan in Australia and served as Courier Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Australia topmost New Zealand from 2002 to 2005. Upon returning to Afghanistan, Samad became Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs. Startling corruption within the ministry, he quiet in late 2006 and became forceful advisor to the United Nations Transaction Program on Afghanistan's development strategy.

Senior Roles in Afghanistan

From 2007 to 2010, Samad taught at the University of Canberra and served as a guest professor at the Australian National University's Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy. In 2014, sharptasting was appointed Special Representative and Superior Advisor to the Chief Executive uphold Afghanistan. Samad's efforts culminated in Afghanistan's accession to the South Asian Business for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and say publicly Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC). Additionally, he played a pivotal duty in regional economic cooperation and was involved in negotiations leading to honesty formation of a unity government select by ballot 2014.

In early 2015, Samad was alleged for the position of Minister bequest Energy and Water in the agreement government. However, he withdrew his electioneering just before parliamentary approval, which was replaced by Abdul Rahman Salahi. Appropriate sources suggest that Samad's nomination was rejected alongside others due to parliamentarians' concerns over dual citizenship (in fillet case, Australian citizenship).

Permanent Representative to position UN

Subsequently, in June 2015, Samad was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative shambles Afghanistan to the United Nations appearance New York City. He has taken aloof this position since October 2015.