2. Previous Function:

Director of Community Development with UN Habitat Program in District 10 of Kabul  (1999-2001)
DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF PARNEYAN TRAINING CENTER AND REHABILITATION ORGANIZATION (P.T.C.R.O)- (2003-2012)
Founder and CEO, Kaweyan Business Development Services Projects Implemented through KBDS (2004-2014)
Deputy Chief of Staff for Admin and Finance in the Administrative Office of President (2014-2017)
Deputy Minister of Commerce and Industry (20170600)
Minister of Ministry of Industry and Commerce (20181201-20190300 acting)
Founder and CEO of Kaweyan Group of Companies since March 2019
3. Biodata:
Mrs. Kamila Sidiqi was born 1977 in Khairkhana, Kabul. After the Taliban take Kabul in 1996, Kamila Sidiqi’s parents were forced to flee to the north. Her father was in the military under previous regimes and the family fears for his life if he remains in Kabul. She graduated with Bachelors from Syed Jamaluddin Teacher Training Institute Afghanistan in 1996.

She is a prominent economic activist in Afghanistan who has worked in leadership roles in various sectors.  For the past several years, she has been actively engaged in promoting gender issues, private sector development, transparency and anti-corruption in Afghanistan.

In February 2017, Sidiqi represented Afghanistan as a key speaker in the AFPAK Partnership Summit: Workable Solutions in a New Era which was held in Mali. In 2015, Mrs. Sidiqi was a keynote speaker at The Economist Magazine’s World in 2016 event in Hong Kong and Singapore. The year 2014 saw Kamila as a speaker at the Power of Empowered Women Event organized by the United Nations in Geneva. She was a speaker at Regional Policy Dialogue on Central Asia's Regional Challenges organized in Turkey by the Hollings Center and has represented Afghanistan's women entrepreneurs in several B2B conferences organized in India, Tajikistan. She was also a founding member of the Steering Committee of the South Asia Women Entrepreneurs Symposium (SAWES).

She speaks Dari and English.