Mr. Ajmal Shirzai is the Country Director of Future Generations Afghanistan (FGA) with over 30 years of experience in rural development, program design, and NGO leadership across Afghanistan, Nepal, and Pakistan. He holds master’s degrees in Rural Development and Applied Community Change and Conservation and is pursuing a PhD on sustainable challenges at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Mr. Shirzai has served as Strategic Planning Advisor at the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development and as Head of the Afghanistan Institute for Rural Development. He also previously taught as an Associate Professor at Kabul University.