Ashraf Ghani

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an Afghan politician, academic, and economist who served as President of Afghanistan between September 2014 and August 2021. An anthropologist by education, he previously served as finance minister and the chancellor of w:Kabul University.

Ghani in 2011

Quotes

• This is the worst job on Earth
  • Quoted on BBC News, "Ashraf Ghani: Afghan president has 'worst job on Earth'", (5 October 2017).

Quotes about Ghani

• Ghani is perhaps best known now as a man who fled his presidential palace with $169 million. Even before an official denial from the former president, questions around the logistics of transporting that amount of cash cast doubt on the claims. Still, regardless of what actually happened when Ghani fled Kabul, there is a truthfulness to the image of the failed leader stealing from the Afghan people.
  • Tho Bishop, Afghanistan’s Former President and the Kleptocracy of "Liberal Democracy", Mises Institute, August 2021

• Ashraf Ghani embodies the degree to which modern neoliberal democracy is a façade for the ruling kleptocracy.
  • Tho Bishop, Afghanistan’s Former President and the Kleptocracy of "Liberal Democracy", Mises Institute, August 2021

• No matter what happened in his final moments as president, Ghani was a failure at putting into practice what he had spent his entire life talking about: making Afghanistan a prosperous nation. While he was a darling of Western politicians and prestigious NGOs, he was a leader completely inept and out of touch with the realities of a country he spent most of his adult life avoiding.
  • Tho Bishop, Afghanistan’s Former President and the Kleptocracy of "Liberal Democracy", Mises Institute, August 2021