Humayoon Azizi

Humayun Azizi is an Afghan physician who served as governor of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, from April 2015 until 2017. He has previously been state minister for parliamentary affairs. He has been Afghanistan's Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2017 to 2020 and currently the Afghan ambassador to France since 2020.

Career Humayun Azizi is a Pashtun from the Herat Province. He obtained his PhD in medicine from the Kabul Medical University. He was a doctor in a Herati hospital from 2000 to 2003. A general surgeon, he soon became head of the Burns Unit at Herat Zone Hospital in 2002. Alongside his profession, he was also interested and active in social and political affairs of Afghanistan. In 2005 Azizi was elected as member of Provincial Council of Herat and chaired the council for 4 years.

Assassination attempt

On January 11, 2017, Azizi was injured in an explosion at the governor's compound. He was hosting a welcome dinner to an Emirati diplomatic mission who were on a humanitarian mission to open an orphanage in Kandahar. A total of 13 people were killed, among them 5 Emirati diplomats, and 18 were injured in the explosion, including Azizi and the United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Afghanistan Juma Al Kaabi. His subsequent hospitalization lasted 2 months.