Mohib Waziri has a degree in Information Technology specialized in Web & Mobile applications. He is currently working on CyberPatient project with Can-Health International under Dr.Karim Qayumi supervision. He is actively engaged in community and cultural programs in Vancouver, Canada.

Shabnam was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. When Taliban took over, and girls were forbidden to go to school, Shabnam started primary school in Panjsher province. After the fall of Taliban she continued her studies at the Educational Psychology faculty in Kabul University. During university, Shabnam was working as an editor, producer and radio operator for Amozgar Radio. Shabnam’s work career started from here, and after that, she worked as a project coordinator in Panjshir province for women empowerment project. In 2012 she joined the Partnership Afghanistan-(Canada) Organization as a volunteer and served as the project coordinator for M-Learning Project. After that, Shabnam worked at the Independent Election Commission as a Media Liaison officer, as a Capacity Building Officer for the Afghan Women Education Center, and as a UN Volunteer for the UNDP project for Gender Equality enhancement in Afghanistan.

Currently, Shabnam is in Turkey to get her Master’s degree and is continuing her work with PAC for implementing Community Self Care Demonstration Program (CSDP) training in Afghanistan. Apart from these jobs mentioned above, Shabnam has worked with many more youths Organizations and with Darkht e Danesh online library as a volunteer editor.

In Shabnam’s opinion, if you want to be happy and have peace of mind you need to serve others and help societies to bring positive change. That is why she loves working voluntarily and feels genuine happiness within that.

Karim Qayumi is a Professor in the Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Director, Centre of Excellence for Simulation Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESEI), Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia. He is the Chair of the Canadian Network for Simulation in Health (CNSH); co-Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) Simulation Summit 2009; and Chair of the Technology Enabled Learning Committee of the Education Division at the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

Dr. Qayumi’s work has been acknowledged by prestigious awards such as the Bright & Shiny Award, Killam University Teaching Prize, H. Rocke Robertson Award for Recognition of Outstanding Clinical Teaching, Andreas Van Recum Award among others. Dr. Qayumi’s work has generated over $10 million in peer review grants and tens of millions of dollars in non-peer review grants. He is widely published and has been an invited lecturer to many academic events and he has also taken an advisory/consulting role for simulation centers being built or simulation-based programs developed at various universities.

Dr. Qayumi is a veteran investigator and an outstanding teacher at the University of British Columbia.  He has extensive international teaching experience with excellent records.  He obtained 11 awards in the field of medicine.  His teaching records demonstrate a score of 6.7 (from 0-7) for the past several years evaluated by 120 medical students per year.

Mr. Faqiri is currently a Senior Fellow and Faculty Associate – Lead Greater Central Asia Initiative the Institute of Asian Research University of British Columbia. Having served as a career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Mr. Faqiri has held high positions of professional responsibility at home and overseas ranging from a General Directorate to Minister plenipotentiary -Ambassadorial levels.

He obtained a master degree in Peace building and Conflict Resolution from Center of Diplomatic and Strategic Studies Paris – France. He has successfully attended numerous Fellowships Programs throughout his professional and diplomatic career.

Mr.Faqiri is both an academic and a practitioner in the fields of diplomacy, international relations, Peace building and Conflict Resolution as well as issues related to central Asian. Mr. Faqiri has worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan from February 2002 to July 2014. He served in various capacities, more precisely, as Deputy Permanent Delegate of Afghanistan to UNESCO in Paris, Spokesman and General Director of Media relations MoFA, Minister Plenipotentiary Deputy Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, and Minister Plenipotentiary Deputy Ambassador to Washington D.C.

Mr. Faqiri has acquired an international environment of multi-cultural character, He has fervent desire to contribute and serve in the fields of peace building, conflict management, social and economic development and more specifically the ascending of Asian and its new security order.

He speaks English, Farsi, Pashtu, and intermediate French.

Dr. Michael Janusz is a cardiovascular surgeon at Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a clinical professor of surgery at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Thoracic Aortic Surgery Service at UBC.

Aman Nuri M.Sc, Geologist.

He has 10 years experience as a geologist, including 2 years with the UNDP project. In the last 34 years, he worked as a financial advisor with SunLife of Canada.
Currently retired.

David Crenna is a former executive in the Canadian federal government, who has also held senior positions in both the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada.

He worked as an international development consultant for over a dozen years in a variety of fields, including post-war reconstruction, defence conversion, and demining, as well as environmental policy, housing policy, and technology transfer. He has managed substantial development projects for the World Bank, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, and the Canadian International Development Agency, as well as for a private sector company operating in the high-technology field. He has led projects in India, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uruguay and Thailand. He is the author of a major report on post-disaster and post-war reconstruction for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Mr. Crenna was a co-founder of Partnership Afghanistan Canada, and has previously served as Secretary-Treasurer of the organization.

He has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Arts in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Science in Political Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).

Neil graduated from the University of British Columbia and has been a Project Management Consultant for over 40 years, undertaking the Construction Management of numerous small and large-scale projects, for Governments and the private sector in Canada, the United States and Australia.

His first project was coordinating the City of Vancouver’s first residential development on leasehold land. Today False Creek, with its mix of market and non market housing, is a successful inner city community with a school, marina, shops, parks, and home to one thousand families.

He was appointed as the first President and General Manager of the Whistler Village Land Company responsible for the development of the village infrastructure, the Arnold Palmer Golf Course and the first shops, restaurants, and one thousand hotel and condominium units. Whistler today has become a year round world class resort.

In 1999 Neil founded Builders Without Borders (BWB), a Canadian registered charitable organization. BWB recruits consultants from the building industry who volunteer their planning, design and construction services for the construction of housing, schools, and medical facilities in developing countries.  BWB consultants have undertaken 140 projects in 8 countries for organizations such as World Vision, Save the Children, the Red Cross, Industry Canada, the Centre for Sustainable Cities, Partnership Afghanistan Canada, the Rinaldi Foundation Haiti, the Canadian Construction Association, and Haiti Village Health . www.builderswithoutborders.com