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Sharif Ghalib
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Sharif Ghalib was serving as Chief Policy Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan. He formerly served as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and Chargé d'affaires of the Embassy of Afghanistan in Ottawa, Canada. Prior to the posting, he served as Deputy Permanent Representative (DPR) and Chargé d'affaires to the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and Chargé d'affaires at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Bern, Switzerland.
Ghalib is the first Afghan diplomat to have represented Afghanistan in Canada.
Sharif Ghalib received his B.A. in Law and Political Science from Kabul University. He earned a Master's degree in International Relations from Virginia Theological University (VTU) in 1997. Ghalib came to the United States under USIA Internship and Exchange Program in 1990, where he completed an international intensive career development Program in Broadcast Journalism conducted by the Center for Foreign Journalists in Reston, Virginia.
Sharif Ghalib was a participant in the senior Afghan leadership workshop organized by the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) in November 2011. He was also awarded a certificate for completion of a special workshop on charisma and leadership conducted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Switzerland in February 2012.
In the 1990s Ghalib established and hosted Free Afghanistan Broadcasting, a multi-featured community TV show in New York, and was its executive producer for the subsequent three years, during which he earned a certificate in production and editing from Queens Public Television. He was a broadcaster and news anchor on national radio and television network prior to leaving Afghanistan.
Sharif Ghalib joined the Afghan Foreign Service in 1994 and his diplomatic career started at the United Nations. He served for three consecutive terms at the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations as Second Secretary, First Secretary and Counsellor from 1994 to 2002. Ghalib had been a member of UNGA Drafting Committee of the annual resolutions on Afghanistan until 2001.
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