1. Former Directors General Civil Aviation Authority of Afghanistan Afghanistan's Civil Aviation Authority chairman, Chairman of Afghan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA):
Captain Hamid Zaher (20170530)
Mahmood Shah Habibi Mahmoud Shah Habibi (20170531, 20180809, 20190102)
Mohammad Qasim Wafaeezada, Mohammad Qasim Wafayee (20190408, 20200113)

Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) Deputy Head:
Mahmood Shah Habibi (20150219, 20160629, 20170530)
Mohammad Qasim Wafaeezada, Mohammad Qasim Wafayee (20170506)
Public relation and Information Director for Civil Aviation Authority:
Qasim Rahimi (20160621)

2. Previous Functions Mohammad Qasim Wafaeezada:
Political Researcher (20140624, 20170113)
Deputy of Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) for Policy and Planning (2013)
Director General Civil Aviation Authority of Afghanistan (20190408, 20200113)

3. Biodata:
Dr. Mohammad Qasim Wafaeezada, Mohammad Qasim Wafayee. Qasim Wafayezada was born in Waras district of Bamyan Province in July 1980. He finished school in Panjab High School and graduated from Journalism Faculty of Kabul University in 2005. He was awarded MONBUKAGAKUSHO Scholarship from 2007-2013. Wafayezada earned his Masters’ Degree on International Communications and was awarded the certificate for the best MA dissertation of 2009 by Kanazawa University, Japan. He received his doctorate in international relations from Kanazawa University. His research focus has been on state building, nation building, ethnic politics, democratization and peacebuilding in post-conflict multiethnic societies.

As a practitioner, he was expert of social and cultural affairs within the Secretariat of the Ministers’ Council of Afghanistan. Wafayezada has also worked extensively with Afghan media, namely as editor in chief of Mardum Weekly, editor in chief of Misaq Wahdat Weekly, etc. Since 2013, he served as Deputy of Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) for Policy and Planning.
 

Beside his career, as an academic, Wafayezada has authored several books including “Ethnic Politics and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: The Root Causes of Political Conflicts and the Problems of Democratic Transition” published in 2013 by Scholars’ Press. Wafayezada has authored and co-authored several academic articles and policy papers including: “Ethnic Politics, Ethnic Political Parties and the Future of Democratic Peacebuilding in Afghanistan” Journal of Human and Socio-Environmental Studies, 24,  65-91 September; “International Assistance to Post-Conflict Peacebulding: the Cases of Cambodia and Afghanistan” Journal of Human and Socio-Environmental Studies 23,  43-70 March; “Youth and the Transformation Process in Afghanistan” Kabul: HREVO and HBS Afghanistan; “Ethnic Politics and Youth Political Participation in Afghanistan”, Kabul: Afghanistan Peace Initiatives Organization and HBS Afghanistan; “Four Decades of Efforts for Peace and Reconciliation in Afghanistan: Analysis of the Impediments and Barriers to Sustainable Peace, Kabul: Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies (160 pp) [Policy Paper].

He speaks Dari and English.