Zalmay Khalilzad
Khalilzad speaking at a high school in Kabul, Afghanistan
26th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office April 17, 2007 – January 20, 2009
President	George W. Bush
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-Moon
Preceded by	John R. Bolton
Succeeded by	Susan Rice
United States Ambassador to Iraq
In office June 21, 2005 – April 17, 2007
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	John Negroponte
Succeeded by	Ryan Crocker
United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
In office November 28, 2003 – June 20, 2005
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Robert Finn
Succeeded by	Ronald E. Neumann
Personal details
Born	Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (1951-03-22) March 22, 1951 (age 73) Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Cheryl Benard
Children	Alexander Benard Maximilian Benard
Alma mater	American University of Beirut University of Chicago
Profession	Academic and Diplomat

Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Pashto: زلمی خلیلزاد Zalmay Khalīlzād; born March 22, 1951) is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and president of Khalilzad Associates. He was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009.^[1]

In October 2021, CNN reported that Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States' principal envoy for Afghanistan, will quit his post in Afghanistan, after the end of the withdrawal of American forces in Afghanistan.

Media related to Zalmay Khalilzad at Wikimedia Commons

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Zalmay Khalilzad on IMDb
• Works by or about Zalmay Khalilzad in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Zalmay Khalilzad collected news and commentary at The New York Times

Articles

• The Washington Post – Afghan Roots Keep Adviser Firmly in the Inner Circle Archived 2011-01-23 at the Wayback Machine
• US Mission to the UN – United States Ambassadors to the United Nations Archived 2009-01-09 at the Wayback Machine
• Current Biography August 2006 cover story
• The New Yorker – American Viceroy
• RFE/RL interview with Zalmay Khalilzad (May 18, 2007)
• Zalmay.com, a profile view
• Profile: Khalilzad, The Center for Cooperative Research
• Video: Khalilzad discusses Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East Archived 2008-12-28 at the Wayback Machine

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