Mr. Mohammad Basir Hamidi was selected as the FEFA's chairperson on June 2, 2017. Mr. Hamidi graduated from Nangarhar Medical University and has a long history of working with government and non-government organizations in Afghanistan. Mr. Hamidi has worked with FEFA in various endeavors including leadership of the Monitoring and Evaluation Department of FEFA.

Before taking the responsibility of leading FEFA’s monitoring and evaluation department, he was leading FEFA’s admin-logistic department and had played a constructive role in internal control and admin affairs of the organization. He has extensive experiences of election monitoring at the national and international levels. He was an active member of election observation missions to some Asian countries. His contribution in developing policies for FEFA and working with the leadership of FEFA in developing internal legal framework is remarkable. After a decade of working honestly and leaving a clean working background, Mr. Basir Hamidi left FEFA and joined the public services sector at the government of Afghanistan. In a decision made by FEFA’s board of directors, Mr. Hamidi was selected as a member of Board of Directors.

Mrs. Sweeta Noori has been a long term supporter of FEFA. She currently serves as Deputy Chief of Mission of Afghan Women Leadership Programs (PROMOTE). Prior to this, she served as Country Director of Women for Women International in Afghanistan. She managed the programs that have helped more than 8,500 women by providing direct financial assistance, rights education, vocational skills training, and microcredit loans.

In July 2004, Mrs. Noori launched the Afghanistan’s first microcredit lending program targeting women, which has since dispersed over $750,000 to approximately 2,700 women. She helps maintain a 99% repayment rate. Under Ms. Noori’s leadership, Women for Women International teamed up with the Afghanistan Ministry of Women’s Affairs to register 2,000 women to vote in the historic 2004 presidential elections and 1,800 women in the 2005 parliamentary elections. Prior to joining Women for Women International, Mrs. Noori served as an assistant for the Chairman of the Loya Jerga Commission in forming the transitional administration of Afghanistan. She has also worked for the International Human Rights Law Group and the International Rescue Committee. In October 2005, she addressed the United Nations Security Council and the U.S. Congress about the challenges Afghan women continue to face. She earned her BA in social sciences from Kabul University and received numerous training on leadership and non-profit organization’s management in UK and US.

Mr. Sohil is one of the co-founders of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA). He is the publisher of Hasht e Subh Daily newspaper, the leading award winning and biggest daily newspaper in Afghanistan with significant outreach throughout country’s main provinces.

He has been leading the only liberal student’s movement in the country since early 2002 and has been one of the members of the Young Leaders Forum in the country. He holds more than 10 years of experience in the media sector of Afghanistan. As Sanjar was intended to contribute towards regional democratization and promotion of the freedom of speech, he established the Kohandazh magazine in north-east region of the country. Similarly, has produced and presented a number of radio and TV debates on human rights issues and current affairs. He has also built its career in visual media by working as the Senior Advisor, News & Current Affairs Manager of the National Radio and Television (RTA) of Afghanistan. He served as the Current Affairs and Broadcasting Manager of the Saba TV (a privet not for profit TV station in Afghanistan). Sanjar has written extensively on politics in Afghanistan and conducted number of widely read researches and assessment reports on democratization and human rights issues in Afghanistan. He holds a Master’s degree on development studies from University of Ottawa.

Mrs. Sadat is a women rights activist. She works as awareness manager of the Women Sexual Harassment project at Modern Education for Development (MODE). Prior to that she served as an administrator at USAID-Afghanistan. She worked as program officer at the Land Reform programs of USAID. She holds a BA in social Sciences from Kabul University and is a candidate for Masters of development studies.

Mr. Yousefi is Director of Afghan Management and Marketing Consulting, a privet sector firm. He founded organization for preservation of traditional handcrafts and is engaged in social works and community development. As a businessman, he has always shown interest in supporting social activities and been involved in volunteer social works. His penchant for a democratic Afghanistan resulted in serving as FEFA's volunteer election observer in elections.

Mr. Safi is a human rights activist. He is currently director of the Caravan of Justice- a social youth community based organization. Prior to this, Mr. Safi was monitoring officer at the Human Rights Commission.
Mr. Safi also served as barrister in Ningrahar province of Afghanistan. As a social worker, he always volunteered as an election observer.

Mr. Mateen Behroz is an active contributor to social activities. He is a dynamic results-oriented manager with over 10 years of management experience in various organizations. He is the founder and CEO of two technological companies in Dubai and Afghanistan. He is capable of leading professional teams and making decisions under challenging circumstances. Prior to establishing his own companies, Mr. Mateen worked with UN agencies and Afghan NGOs.

He earned his BA on Management from American University of Afghanistan and studied Information Technology at Brains collages of Pakistan. He has also studied Information technology client support at Champlen College of Quebec city of Canada. His key areas of profession is IT business management and development, System administration, Software proficiency and network administration.