Nasrat Khalid

Tech Founder | Impact | @Aseelapp | #SaveAfghanistan

Arlington, Virginia, United States

About

Founder @ASEELApp - Passionate about expanding access to the digital economy. Featured by TIME, NPR, Al Jazeera, Recipient of the Andrew Rice Award. Nasrat is passionate about including countries in the Global South and global talent in the digital economy. Nasrat has helped over half a million people through his platform with emergency support items in the Afghanistan crisis. Nasrat's platform, Aseel, has also helped sell over ten thousand handmade items from Afghanistan and Turkey in international markets. Before creating the Aseel platform, Nasrat served the international development sector with the World Bank, USAID, and the private sector for 12 years. By training, Nasrat is a systems Infrastructure Engineer.

Experience

  • Founder and CEO at Aseel
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Information Technology Architect at The World Bank
    Dec 2012 - Jan 2020 · 7 yrs 2 mos

    Worked with Afghanistan Country Office (CO) - IMT - Information Analyst, Client Services (CS) IT Analyst in charge of all IT operations, Support the world bank group development portfolio in Afghanistan as a technical IT resource. South Asia Region (SAR). Worked with FCI (Finance, competitiveness and innovation) global practice, Sr. Systems Architect, Payment Automation and Integration System, solid technical advice on public financial systems, system development, interagency integrations. WBGHQ

  • G20 Young Global Changer and G20 YGC Ambassador at Global Solutions Initiative
    May 2017 - Jun 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    • Member of the Digital Economy and Future of Work team in Global Solutions Summit. Berlin, YGC'2017 as a fellow. • Led the Digitalization Working Group for the Global Solutions Summit. Berlin YGC'21 as an Ambassador.

  • ICANN Fellow (ICANN57 and ICANN61) at ICANN
    Nov 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

    ICANN is a public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable, and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers. Through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.

  • IT Advisor - New Business at The American University of Afghanistan
    Aug 2012 - Dec 2012 · 5 mos

    Initiated the IT Department of the professional development institute (PDI) in AUAF, established team members including lecturers, test takers, IT support and the IT management team. Marketing, branding and transformation of the AUAF IT training and testing center to be a leader in cybersecurity, internetworking, networks and integration, and systems development in Afghanistan.