Abdul Qadir Fitrat (/ˈæbdʊlkəˈdɪərˈfɪtræt/ⓘ) was the governor of Da Afghanistan Bank from 2007 to 2011.[3] He fled to the United States and was wanted by the Government of Afghanistan. He was residing among the large Afghan-American community in Northern Virginia until his death in April 2024.[1][2]
An ethnic Tajik, Fitrat was born in Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan. He attended primary school in his native province and secondary school in Kabul. He then moved to Pakistan and received a degree in economics from the International Islamic University in Islamabad. He immigrated to the United States and earned a master's degree from the Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. By the late 1990s he began working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington. Between 2000 and 2001, he worked for First Union National Bank in Northern Virginia and later for the World Bank. During the Presidency of Hamid Karzai, he was appointed as the governor of Afghanistan's central bank (Da Afghanistan Bank).
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