Ahmad Nader Nadery (born 1975)[1] is an Afghan-born human rights activist and government official.[2] He is the founding director of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan and a senior fellow at the Wilson Center.[3][4] Formerly, he was a commissioner of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and a senior advisor to Afghan President.[5]
Nadery was born in 1975 in the Nimruz Province to a known Pashtun family.[6] He studied law at Kabul University and obtained his master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University.[7] During this tenure, he was detained several times and exiled in Pakistan.[6] In 1996, he was publicly flogged for not wearing a turban.[8]