FORA.tv Speaker - Said Tayeb Jawad

Said Tayeb Jawad is Afghanistan's Ambassador to the United States. He was appointed by President Hamid Karzai on December 4, 2003. He also serves as Afghanistan's non-resident Ambassador to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. Jawad was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was educated at the Afghan French Lycee Istiklal, and at the School of Law and Political Sciences in Kabul University. He then traveled to Germany for more advanced studies at Westfaelische Wilhelms University in Muenster. In 1986 he settled in the United States, where he earned his MBA from the Golden Gate University in San Francisco and worked for a number of prominent law firms.