| History and Biodata |
1. Former Ambassadors to Australia:
Amanullah Jayoon (20070531),
Nasir Ahmad Andisha (20120106-20150823)
Wahidullah Waissi (201170301, 20170819)
Wahid Waissi (20200903)
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Embassy Staff as of 20170819:
Mostainbillah BALAGH
Counsellor
Noosh Azar SALEH
Second Secretary
Mirwais AHMADZAI
Second Secretary
Zabihullah LODIN
Third Secretary
Former Embassy staff:
Consular ( Head of Consular Section): Abdul Khaliq Arsala
Phone: +61 (2) 62826034-62827377
Fax: +61 (2) 6282 7322
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First Secretary (Head of Political, Military & Parliamentary Affairs): Fazal Rehman Katawazai
E-mail:afghandiplomat(at)yahoo.com
Phone: +61 (2) 62826034-62827377
Fax: +61 (2) 6282 7322
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First Secretary ( Head of Public and Cultural Affairs): Mohammad Ashor Azimi
E-mail: ashorjan(at)gmail.com
Phone: +61 (2) 62826034-62827377
Fax: +61 (2) 6282 7322
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Second Secretary ( Economic & Administrative): Wais Sidiqi
Phone: +61 (2) 62826034-62827377
Fax: +61 (2) 6282 7322
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Third Secretary ( Media Affairs): Zabihullah Husseinkhil
E-mail:Z.Husseinkhil(at)afghanembassy.net
Fax: +61 (2) 6282 7322
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Personal Aid to the Ambassador: Madina Khali
Email: pa(at)afghanembassy.net
Phone: +61 (2) 6282 7311
Fax: +61 (2) 6282 7322
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2. Previous Functions Wahidullah Waissi:
Official in the ANDS program, Director, Budget Policy and ANDS Directorate (20080304)
Senior Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Finance, (20110822, 20120508)
Ambassador to Australia (2017020170301, 20170819)
Ambassador to Australia Canberra (20200903)
3. Biodata:
 Wahidullah Waissi was born on April 18, 1975 in Kabul. In 2004 the Wiiliams College center welcomed Farzana Rashid and Wahidullah Waissi as· its first students from Afghanistan. Waissi was awarded master’s of arts degrees in development economics at Williams 216th Commencement. Center for Development Economics (CDE) at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. on Sunday, June 5, 2005.
Waissi was a member of the Green Club, Kabul, Afghanistan and organised 1.100 Kabul University Students who participated in second day of Environment Week organized by the Green Club Afghanistan, the Cleaning Earth day, and cleaned their faculty yards, pathways and streets from wastes. They also had a waste management program for the collected wastes outside of the University.
Waissi's professional work focuses on economic development since 1998. He has worked for many national and international non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, and government in Kabul and provinces.
He is a visiting scholar of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of the SAIS/Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, a fellowship program for raising regional leaders in government, commerce, and academia from Central Asia, Mongolia, the Caucasus and Afghanistan (CAMCA).
Waissi had also studied Results Based Management at the Shanghai based Asia-Pacific Finance and Development Institute (AFDI) in 2007 under a fellowship granted from Shanghai International Program for Development Evaluation Training (SHIPDET) program.
Wahidullah Waissi began his PhD as a part-time study at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy of the Australian National University on February 2018. He holds a MA in Development Economics from Williams College in Massachusetts, United States.
Wahid is a diplomat, serving as an ambassador for Afghanistan to Australia since March 2017. In this position he is also accredited to New Zealand and Fiji.
Waissi joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2012 as Senior Advisor on regional cooperation. Later, he was appointed as Director-General for Economic Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2012 to 2016).
Waissi is married and has two daughters and a son.
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