Tooryalai Wesa
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Tooryalai Wesa is the current Governor of Kandahar Province
Kandahar Province
Kandahar or Qandahar is one of the largest of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is located in southern Afghanistan, between Helmand, Oruzgan and Zabul provinces. Its capital is the city of Kandahar, which is located on the Arghandab River. The province has a population of nearly...

, after replacing General Rahmatullah Raufi
Rahmatullah Raufi
Major General Rahmatullah Raufi is a former governor of Kandahar from August 2008 until he was sacked on December 4, 2008. Before that he was a senior military commander of the Afghan National Army presently commanding the 205th Corps, which is responsible for Afghanistan's restive southern provinces...

 in December 2008. Tooryalai Wesa was born in village Kohak in District Arghandab and grew up in Kandahar
Kandahar
Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...

. His family and the family of Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai, GCMG is the 12th and current President of Afghanistan, taking office on 7 December 2004. He became a dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001...

 have enjoyed close relationship for a long time.

Before his appointment as the Governor of Kandahar, he lived in Coquitlam, British Columbia
British Columbia
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, Canada
Canada
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 for 13 years. From 1995 to 1998, he worked for the Asian Studies Center and the Center for Policy Studies in Education at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley...

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Dr. Wesa was named senior advisor to the Afghan Minister for Higher Education in 1989 and returned to Kandahar City in 1991 as founding president of Kandahar University. From 1993 to 1994, he served as a guest lecturer in the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

As a student, lecturer and researcher, Dr. Wesa has been associated with 10 universities worldwide and has published 20 articles including text books.

After securing his B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics & Extension from the Faculty of Agriculture at Kabul University in 1973, he pursued his M.Sc. at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Due to the civil war in Lebanon, he moved to the Department of Agricultural Education, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA and received his M. Sc. Degree in 1977. He obtained his Ph. D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His thesis was “The Afghan Agricultural Extension System: Impact of the Soviet Occupation and Prospects for the Future”.

In addition to his career as an academic, Dr. Wesa has worked as a consultant for the Canadian Government (Statistics Canada), the US Government (USAID), British Government (DFID), the United Nations (FAO and UNDP) and several NGOs (including the SENLIS Council).

Dr. Wesa speaks Pashto, English, Dari, Persian, German and Arabic. He belongs to the Mohammedzai subtribe. Dr. Wesa’s immediate family includes a wife, and three daughters.

He narrowly escaped an assassination attempt on November 27, 2009 when a roadside bomb damaged his vehicle.
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