Anwar ul-Haq Ahady

Professor Doctor Anwar ul-Haq Ahady is an Afghan politician^{[citation needed]} and academic^{[citation needed]}, and the top finance official in Afghanistan. Born the son of Abdul Haqhas, he holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA), as well as a Ph.D in political science^{[citation needed]} from the post-graduate faculty of Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., north of Chicago. He earned a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree, in economics and political science, from the American University of Beirut, in Lebanon^{[citation needed]}. Ahadi has served as an assistant professor of political science at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., in the United States, and as the banking director of Continental Elona of Chicago from 1985-1987. From 1987 to 2002, he was a professor of political science at Providence College, a Roman Catholic university in Providence, R.I. In 2002, he was made the governor of Da Afghanistan Bank (the central bank of Afghanistan). Currently he is the finance minister of Afghanistan and also the head of the Pashtun nationalist Afghan Mellat party.