Ambassador's Biography

 Nasir Ahmad Andisha is the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand and the Republic of Fiji. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador to Australia, Mr. Andisha was the Director General of the Fifth Political Division (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) from 2009 to 2011 at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from 2006 to 2007 he was the Director of Multilateral Economic Relations and International Financial Institutions.  Earlier, he worked as the Chief of Staff for the Deputy Foreign Minister (2005-06).

Mr. Andisha has also worked at the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels as a consultant and in 2008 he briefly served the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City. Before joining the Foreign Service, Ambassador Andisha worked with the International Committee of Red Cross as a field officer. He also taught International Relations and Principles of Economics at Institute of Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan.

In summer of 2007, Ambassador Andisha received a Fulbright Scholarship and completed his master degree in international at The George H. Bush School of Government and Public Services in Texas A&M University. He later finished Advanced Security Studies Diploma from the Marshall Centre for European Studies in Garmisch-Germany and Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Hawaii, USA. He also attended the Executive Education Program in Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University.

He is fluent in Farsi/Dari, Pashto and English and posse’s basic fluency in French and Arabic.

Amb Andisha is married. He and his wife have two children.