Daud Shah Saba (born 1964) is a

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, who is serving as Governor of Herat Province since August 2010 when his predecessor

Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani Dr. Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani is a former politician from Afghanistan. He has served as governor of Herat province from January 2009 to August 2010. In September 2018, President Ashraf Ghani appointed Nuristani to the Meshrano Jirga, the upper body of ...

had resigned from the post.

Early years and education

Daud Shah Saba was born in 1964 in

Herat Herāt (; Persian: ) is an oasis city and the third-largest city of Afghanistan. In 2020, it had an estimated population of 574,276, and serves as the capital of Herat Province, situated south of the Paropamisus Mountains (''Selseleh-ye Safēd ...

, Afghanistan. He belongs to the

Popalzai Popalzai or Popalzay ( ps, پوپلزی), also known as Popal, are Durrani (formerly called Abdali or Bor Tareen) Pashtuns of Afghanistan. The Popalzai are part of the Zirak confederation of Pashtun tribes. The origin of the Abdali forefathers ...

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tribe. After finishing primary school, he attended the Kabul Polytechnic Institute and obtained a MS in Economic Geology in 1986. He taught in the same institute for six years. In 1996, he travelled to

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where he obtained a Ph.D. in Earth Science from the

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. He is able speak

Dari (Persian) Dari (, , ), also known as Dari Persian (, ), is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language,Lazard, G.Darī � ...

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, English and

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Later years and careers

In 2000, Saba published a book ''Gozar Az Tangna'', which is about his vision of sociopolitical situation in Afghanistan. He served as the President of ''Afghan Green Leave Consulting, LLC'', which is a

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

based consulting firm registered with the

Afghanistan Investment Support Agency Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA; ps, د افغانستان د پانګې اچونې د ملاټر اداره / fa, اداره حمايه سرمايه گذاری افغانستان) was established in September 2003 as an agency Agen ...

. It was established in 2009 by Daud Saba and Martijn Hekman, an international development expert. Saba is an

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who has been involved for about 20 years in international development, natural resources and environmental management, with a focus in Afghanistan. He has worked with many international firms and implemented projects in most of the provinces of Afghanistan. Saba has recently served as the Human Development Advisor to the

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Hamid Karzai Hamid Karzai (; Pashto/ fa, حامد کرزی, , ; born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan statesman who served as the fourth president of Afghanistan from July 2002 to September 2014, including as the first elected president of the Islamic Repub ...

. On 24 August 2010, Saba was appointed by President Karzai as Governor of Herat province after former governor, Muhammad Yousuf Nuristani, began running for in the 2010 parliamentary election.Afghan Biographies
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Early years and education

Later years and careers

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