Said Tayeb Jawad Politician

Said Tayeb Jawad (Persian: سید طیب جواد‎, born 1958) is an Afghan diplomat. He was appointed Afghan Ambassador to the United States on December 4, 2003, by President Hamid Karzai and served as Ambassador until September 22, 2010. He also served as Afghanistan’s non-resident Ambassador to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina. He previously was Chief of Staff to the Afghan President in 2002 and 2003. In October 2010, he joined Harvard University's Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in the John F. Kennedy School of Government as the inaugural Fisher Family Fellow. In February 2011, he became Diplomat-in-Residence at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He also currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Capitalize LLC, a Washington-based strategic consulting company and the Chairman of the Foundation for Afghanistan. He is also a Global Political Strategist at APCO Worldwide.