Afghan Biographies

Nasib, Attaullah


Name Nasib, Attaullah
Ethnic backgr. Pashtun
Date of birth
Function/Grade Head Investment Facilitation Unit Administration Office
History and Biodata

1. Former Head of Investment Facilitation Unit IFU of the Administration Office of the President:
Attaullah Nasib 
(20191226, 20201118, 20210305)

2. Previous Function:
Deputy director of social development at the Office of the President
Lobbyist for Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in Washington (20201001)
Head of Investment Facilitation Unit of the Administration Office of the President (20191226, 20201118, 20210305)

3. Biodata:

In the early 1980s, Nasib Atta's family had fled from Afghanistan's Nangarhār Province amid the Soviet persecution of neighbors and kin. The third of eight children, Nasib was born inside a refugee camp in Pakistan. He landed in the United States in 2004 and enrolled at a local community college in San Francisco. After his English improved, he transferred to San Francisco State University, where he majored in economics. Nasib served as a Senior Program Assistant at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). This was preceded by working at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Foreign Policy Initiative and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Nasib holds a bachelor’s in Economics from San Francisco State University, in California. He also holds a master’s in International Commerce and Policy (ICP) from the George Mason University, in Virginia.

He was unsuccessful in a IT Startup as SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) in VA, USA.

After college, Nasib, who goes by Atta socially, landed a three-month internship with the United Nations Development Programme in Kabul, which turned into a full-time stint as an analyst. In 2011 he returned to the U.S. for graduate school in international affairs, and, soon after, became a naturalized U.S. citizen. While working as a rule-of-law staffer at the U.S. Institute of Peace, he returned to Kabul in 2014, where he eventually connected with members of Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai's presidential campaign. When Ghani won, Nasib received an appointment in the new administration's office. Gradually, working in Afghanistan as an adult filled in the abstractions of a country he barely knew as a child. 

He left Ghani's administration after less than a year, citing disagreements with some of the president's staff, and returned to the States to start a family. He got married and had a son. In Washington, D.C., in the spring of 2018, upcoming parliamentary race he tried to grab a seat in Wolesi Jirga without success. 

26. December 2019 he was made Director of Investment Facilitation Unit at ARG.

His wife Nabila Nasib and child live in Springfield, VA, USA, where Nasib has registered a stock corporation Wadan International Inc. (20180630)

He holds an american Passport.


 

Last Modified 2021-03-05
Established 2021-03-05