Abdullah Abdullah is an Afghan politician and doctor of medicine and current Chief Executive Officer, in office since 2014. He was an adviser and a close friend of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated leader of the Northern Alliance. After the fall of the Taliban regime, Abdullah served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2005. Abdullah ran as an independent candidate in the 2009 presidential election and placed second with 30.5% of the total votes. On November 1, 2009, Abdullah quit the runoff election that would have taken place six days later, on November 7, due to allegations of mass electoral fraud by Karzai. In 2010, he created the Coalition for Change and Hope, which is one of the leading democratic opposition movements in Afghanistan. In 2011, the coalition was transformed into the National Coalition of Afghanistan, which is supported by dozens of Afghan political parties and members of parliament challenging the government of Hamid Karzai. He stood again as a presidential candidate, this time against Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai in the 2014 presidential election. 

September 5th, 1960 in Kabul (Age 64)