Biography

Date: Nov 01, 2008
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His Excellency Homayoun Tandar

Date of birth: 31. 08. 1956 in Kabul
Marital Status: married, two children.

EDUACATION

1975 Baccalaureate, Lycee Isteqlal (Kabul – Afghanistan);

1976 – 1980 Bachelor of Art and Archaeology in La Sorbonne (Paris IV);

1980 – 1981 Master’s Degree in Archaeology in La Sorbonne (Paris IV);

1993 – 1994 Specialization Degree, International Relations in the International Institute for Public Administration (Paris).

WORK EXPERIENCE

1980 – 1990
Representative of the Afghan Resistance in France and Personal Representative of the martyred Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud National Hero of Afghanistan;
- Search for political support to the Resistance and for humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the liberated zones;
- Governmental, political, media and public meetings, discussions and conferences in various European countries (Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdome, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Greece);
- Organisation of the visits of various personalities and Afghan Resistance Leaders to France, Belgium, etc.....;
- Several missions in Asia, American and Africa;
- Member of the Afghan Resistance delegation in four African countries (Senegal, Cote d’lvoire, Niger and Gabon)

1992 – 1993
- Minister Counsellor and Charge d’Affaires Embassy of the Islamic Republic Afghanistan in Paris – France.

1993 – 1994
- Manager of the Transoxian Art Gallery – Paris.

1995 – 2002
- Minister Counsellor, Charge d’Affaires, Permanent Mission of the Islamic State of Afghanistan in the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva.
- Representative and member of the Afghan delegation during various meetings and international or regional conferences in Morocco, South Africa, Yemen etc....;
- Head of the Afghan delegation during UN Human Rights Committees.

2001
- Member of the United Front delegation during the Rome negotiations, together with the delegation of His Majesty the Former King of Afghanistan, in order to find a political solution to the war;
- Member of the United Front delegation during the Bonn negotiations on Afghanistan, under the aegis of the United Nations, and signatory of the Bonn Agreement;
- Member of the delegation accompanying the late Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud during his trip to Europe at the invitation of the Presidency of the European Parliament.

June 2002 – September 2007
- Head of the Afghanistan Mission to the European Communities, Brussels.

July 2002 – September 2007
- Ambassador of Afghanistan to the Kingdom of Belgium.

2004 – September 2007
- Ambassador in charge of NATO affairs, Brussels.

October 2007
- Deputy national Security Advisor, Office of the National Security Council, Kabul.

May 2009
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Afghanistan to the Court of
St. James’s, United Kingdom.

LANGUAGES
- Farsi Dari, Pashtu, French, English


PUBLICATIONS
- Articles in French published media