Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the head of the Afghan Transition Coordination Commission secured the 2nd position among top 100 thinkers of 2013.
The Prospect, a British magazine announced the results of an online poll with over 10,000 votes from 100 countries where Richard Dawkins, the Oxford evolutionary biologist tops the list for the year 2013. He has over 500,000 followers in his Twitter account.
The magazine highlights about Ghani:
Few academics get the chance to put their ideas into practice. But after decades of research into building states at Columbia, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins, followed by a stint at the World Bank, Ashraf Ghani returned to his native Afghanistan to do just that. He served as the country’s finance minister and advised the UN on the transfer of power to the Afghans. He is now in charge of the Afghan Transition Coordination Commission and the Institute for State Effectiveness, applying his experience in Afghanistan elsewhere. He is already looking beyond the current crisis in Syria, raising important questions about what kind of state it will eventually become.
Poll results announced in the magazine were based on the votes received online through Prospect magazine portal.
