2. Previous Function:

• Director, Accelerated Pavement Load Facility
• Associate Director, Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment
  Russ Professor of Civil Engineering at Ohio University (20130502)

Ohio Research Institute for Transportation and the Environment (20180207)
Senior Adviser President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (2017, 20191226)
3. Biodata:

Ph.D., Associate Director Dr. Shah Mohammad Sargand Shad Mohammad Sargand was born in Afghanistan 1954. Mir Haris Ansari--the son-in-law of senior Ghani-adviser Shad Mohammad Sargand. The daughter of Shad Mohammad Sargand, who is the wife of Ansari, lives in the United States. A native of Afghanistan, Sargand has also served as a volunteer liaison with Afghani universities and development officials to promote civil engineering education and encourage rebuilding of infrastructure in his home country's major cities. He has consulted extensively on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan over the past decade.

He was a professor at the Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University in the US state of Ohio, established a relationship between the school and the Afghan government over years, which - according to documents - earned the school approximately $10 million worth of construction contracts to complete projects for Afghanistan.

But a document shows that the university won a contract from Afghanistan’s Public Works (now merged with the Transportation Ministry) for a project worth $1.8 million, and-- documents show-- Sargand earned $75,000 dollars per year, for two years, as the contract was implemented, all while serving as Ghani’s adviser.

President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai spoke highly of a research conducted by Dr. Shad Sargand in maintaining quality of the roads, and called it an effective tool to ensure quality roads.(20150625)

Sargand is an expert in civil engineering, pavements, roadway construction and roadway materials. He is nationally recognized in general infrastructure and roadway construction as director of the National Asphalt Laboratory.

Shad Sargand was named Russ Professor in 1990. He has authored over 200 journal articles, conference papers and technical reports.