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'''Waleed Khaliqi (ولید خالقی)''' current President of NITPAA; is an Afghan IT Technologist, activist and blogger from Kabul, Afghanistan who has been actively involved in community, and capacity building of his Afghan fellows since 2012. Waleed holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (BCS) majoring in Network and Telecommunication, from Kardan University.
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'''Waleed Khaliqi (ولید خالقی)''' Waleed Khaliqi is an IT Technologist, Social Activist and blogger from Kabul, Afghanistan; who has been actively involved in community and capacity building of his Afghan fellows since 2012. He is the former President of National IT Professionals Association of Afghanistan (NITPAA), where he held charge during Oct 2016 – Jan 2019. Tenure, he was instrumental in making NITPAA an At-Large Structure of ICANN, and registering it with Afghan government as a formal non-for profit NGO.
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Beside his volunteer responsibilities as the President of National IT Professionals Association of Afghanistan (NITPAA), Waleed is also a full time employee of Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture where he works as a General Technical manager since 2012.  
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Waleed holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Majoring in Network and Telecommunication, from Kardan University. In addition, he has Diplomas in Information Technology, Business Administration, Accounting Management, and English Literature.
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Waleed writes articles for media, and has skills in online/offline journalism and blogging. besides writing for his own blog (MyNetworkingLabs.Com), Waleed has also written for AfIG.af, NITPAA.org.af and Bakhtarnews.com.af.
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Following are some of the big Achievements NITPAA had during his keep.
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* Registering NITPAA with Afghan government.
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* NITPAA became an At-Large Structure of ICANN.
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* NITPAA became NCUC Organizational member.
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* Signed a one-year MoU with Karwan University.
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* Organizing a two full days AfSIG 2017, and 3 full days AfSIG 2018.
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* The First Term of Reference for the Board of Trustee members was drafted and approved.
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* The first NomCom committee was organized, and the new board members were elected.
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* Conducted seven half-day events.
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* Signed a MoU with Kardan University.
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* The third election, to elect the fourth president of the association, was transparently organized.
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He is a full time government employee, where he works as a Technical General Manager with Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture.
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Waleed was the "40 under 40" award winner of Kardan University in 2017.
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He joined NITPAA back in 2015 as a regular member but, in a short period of time he was able to make it to NITPAA executive board. His passion in ICT, commitment, dedication and immense achievements in executive board were visible to all and soon he was appointed as chair of NITPAA Public Awareness Committee by NITPAA leadership. After an election he is now serving the community as a President of NITPAA.  
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Waleed remained inSIG 2016 and MEAC-SIG 2017 fellow and has participated in ICANN 57 in Hyderabad, ICANN 60 at Abi Dhabi and IGFA 2018 at Kabul. He is one of the Key Organizers of Afghanistan School of Internet Governance (AfSIG) “sig.afig.af” which has been organized in 2017 and 2018 and will be practiced in 2019 as well.
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Waleed writes articles for media, and has skills in online/offline journalism and blogging. besides writing for his own blog (MyNetworkingLabs.Com), Waleed has also written for AfIG.af, NITPAA.org.af and Bakhtarnews.com.af. 
    
==Awards==
 
==Awards==

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