Senior people, named and accountable.

Qudratullah Hiwadpal has spent more than 26 years working with government institutions, international organizations, NGOs and the private sector. He has advised ministers, senior officials, boards and CEOs on strategy, leadership and institutional development in Afghanistan.

His work spans strategic management, project and portfolio management, change management and data-driven decision-making. He is the author of five books on leadership, management and technology, and writes on leadership and change at hiwadpal.com.

Sebghatullah Malakzai has more than 20 years of experience in Afghanistan and Pakistan across monitoring and evaluation, audit and asset verification, training and capacity building, and finance and administration. At BARYA he runs operations and the delivery of field engagements. In October 2026 he led the BARYA team on an asset verification, cash reconciliation and temporary safeguarding assignment for a UK-based international development consultancy.

Since 2017 he has been General Director of the Khatiz Organization for Rehabilitation (KOR), an Afghan NGO, where he represents the organization to donors and ministries, leads monitoring and evaluation of projects in Daikundi, Parwan, Kabul and Herat, and oversees HR, operations and financial management. Before that he spent nearly six years as KOR’s M&E Officer and Master Trainer, training school teachers in nine provinces.

He has trained district governors and their staff in Kunar, Wardak and Nangarhar in public and media relations, project development and monitoring, and has managed budgets, donor reporting and payroll as a finance manager. He works in Pashto, Dari, Arabic, Urdu and English.