He worked as a Microfinance Peace Corps Volunteer in the city of Kumba in Cameroon (2001-2003), the World Bank (2004), as a Senior Advisor at the Afghan Ministry of Finance (2004-2005), the US Treasury Department within the Office of International Monetary Policy researching sovereign debt restructurings (2005), ACAP Partners - an emerging markets private equity group, and Booz Allen Hamilton (2007).

[9] Upon graduating from Harvard University, Ahmady spent eight years in the asset management industry investing in global macro and emerging market strategies.

After the establishment of a National unity government, Ahmady served as the senior advisor for banking and financial affairs to President Ashraf Ghani for four years.

[10] This included a significant increase in Afghanistan's position in the following categories: protecting minority investors, resolving insolvency, and starting a business.

[11] He represented Afghanistan at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference in Copenhagen, where he sat on a panel with then World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgia and other dignitaries.

To improve trade, Ahmady created and was instrumental in leading Afghanistan's National Air Corridor Program that now exports $100 million per year to more than 50 markets around the world and renegotiating a number of transit agreements that should help to reduce transit costs for traders and helped export $1 billion for the first time in the country's history (2020).

Despite challenging circumstances, Governor Ahmady was able to maintain macroeconomic stability, including bringing inflation down from double digits to only 1.6% (as of July 2021), proving strong oversight of the financial sector, and inaugurating a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system in December 2020.

[20] Ahmady left Afghanistan on an American military flight on 15 August, as the Islamic Republic collapsed in light of the 2021 Taliban offensive.

[28] He has also attended multilateral forums including the IMF 2020 Annual Meetings,[29] the 2018 Geneva Conference on Afghanistan,[30] and the World Bank Seminar on Policy Challenges for the Financial Sector;[31] as well as spoken at numerous think tanks, including describing economic reforms at the Wilson Center (2018),[32] investment opportunities at the Heritage Foundation (2019),[33] and the collapse of the government at the Atlantic Council (2021).

[45] He has been able to provide greater detail of his time as Acting Governor of DAB in various podcasts, including in Bloomberg Odd Lots,[46][47] Mercatus Center Macro Musings,[48] and Schroder's 'Running a Central Bank with the Taliban at the Door.