page_title: Ajmal Shams
section_title: Engineer
hierarchical_section_title: Ajmal Shams / Engineer
caption_attribution_description: Ajmal Shams with Ashraf Ghani during a conference at time of security transition in 2011
context_page_description: Ajmal Shams is an Afghan politician.
  Shams has been president of the Afghan Social Democratic Party since October 2005. He speaks Pashto, Persian, English and Urdu.
  He is a certified Project Management Professional with Project Management Institute and a Licensed Professional Engineer in Kentucky.
  Shams regularly writes in national and international newspapers and journals including the News International, Gulf News, Foreign Policy, Asia Times and others. He writes on political, economic and developmental issues.
context_section_description: Shams worked for about two years as head of the water resources section of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Kabul and served briefly as Head of the Engineering Department of the National Solidarity Program in the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development. 
  In 2007, Eng. Shams went to United Arab Emirates (UAE) in a senior engineering position where he participated in large-scale infrastructure projects including the Sheikh Zyed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. In 2009, he returned to Afghanistan and rejoined the Ministry of Rural Development where he served in the reputed National Solidarity Program for about a year. 
  He then joined the Ministry of Urban Development as Director of Planning, Policy and Coordination. In July 2011, Shams joined the Transition Coordination Commission as Policy Advisor.
caption: Ajmal Shams with Dr. Ashraf Ghani during a transition conference
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