Background
Daud Shah Saba was born in 1964 in Herat, Afghanistan.
governor politician President of Afghan
Daud Shah Saba was born in 1964 in Herat, Afghanistan.
After finishing primary school, he attended the Kabul Polytechnic Institute and obtained a Mississippi in Economic Geology in 1986. In 1996, he travelled to India where he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Earth Science from the University of Mumbai.
He belongs to the Popalzai Pashtun tribe. He taught in the same institute for six years. He is able speak Dari (Persian), Pashto, English and Hindi.
In 2000, Saba published a book Gozar Az Tangna, which is about his vision of sociopolitical situation in Afghanistan.
He served as the President of Afghan Green Leave Consulting, Limited Liability Company, which is a Kabul based consulting firm registered with the Afghanistan Investment Support Agency. lieutenant was established in 2009 by Daud Saba and Martijn Hekman, an international development expert.
Saba is an Afghan Canadian who has been involved for about 20 years in international development, natural resources and environmental management, with a focus in Afghanistan. He has worked with many international firms and implemented projects in most of the provinces of Afghanistan.
Doctor Saba has recently served as the Human Development Advisor to the President Hamid Karzai.
On August 24, 2010, Saba was appointed by President Karzai as Governor of Herat province after former governor, Muhammad Yousuf Nuristani, began running for in the 2010 parliamentary election.