Zalmay Khalilzad

Quick Facts

Full Name	Zalmay Khalilzad
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 22, 1951(1951-03-22)
Age	73
Birthplace	Mazar-i-Sharif
Country	Afghanistan
Birth City	Balkh
Horoscope	Pisces

Zalmay Khalilzad Biography

Zalmay Khalilzad is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 22, 1951 in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh, Afghanistan. From 2007 to 2009, the US Ambassador to United Nations was also the United States Ambassador in Iraq.

As US Ambassador to United Nations, he succeeded He succeeded Ban Ki-Moon as US Ambassador to the United Nations..

Khalilzad’s wife is author and political analyst Cheryl Benard. They met in 1972 while they were both students at the American University of Beirut. They have two children: Alexander and Maximilian.

From 1979 to 1989, Khalilzad worked as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. During that time, he worked closely with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter administration’s architect of Operation Cyclone to support the mujahideen, who resisted the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan.

He is married to Cheryl Bernard and has two children. They met when they were students at the American School of Beirut in 1973.

Zalmay Khalilzad Net Worth

Zalmay Khalilzad is one of the richest Politician from Afghanistan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Zalmay Khalilzad 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

From 2003 to 2005, he was US Ambassador to Afghanistan and was part of the initial stages of the plan to overthrow Taliban.

Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Pashto/Dari: زلمی خلیلزاد Zalmay Khalīlzād; born March 22, 1951) is an Afghan-American diplomat, who has served as the Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation at the State Department since September 2018. Previously, he served as a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the president of Gryphon Partners and Khalilzad Associates, an international business consulting firm, based in Washington, D.C.

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Khalilzad also wrote several articles on the subject of the value of U.S. global leadership in the mid-1990s. The specific scenarios for conflict that he envisioned if a decline in American power occurred have made his writings extremely popular in competitive high school and college policy debate, particularly his writing that links the loss of US hegemony to global instability. Khalilzad was a signatory of the letter from members of the Project for the New American Century to President Bill Clinton sent on January 26, 1998. It called for Clinton’s help in “removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power” by using “a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts.”

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Zalmay Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Afghanistan. Zalmay Khalilzad celebrates birthday on March 22 of every year.

In 2001, President George W. Bush asked Khalilzad to head the Bush-Cheney transition team for the Department of Defense, and Khalilzad briefly served as Counselor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. In May 2001, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice announced Khalilzad’s appointment as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Southwest Asia, Near East, and North African Affairs at the US National Security Council. In December 2002, Bush appointed Khalilzad to the position of Ambassador at Large for Free Iraqis with the task of coordinating “preparations for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.”