Salāhuddīn Rabbānī (Persian/Pashto: صلاح‌الدین ربانی; born 10 May 1971)[1][2] is an Afghan diplomat and politician who was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan from February 2015 to October 2019.

[4][6][5] He received an undergraduate degree in management and marketing from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia[2] in 1995.

[citation needed] After he was appointed to the role in March 2012,[1] in April 2012, it was announced that he was to chair the Afghan High Peace Council in its negotiations with the Taliban.

[citation needed] On 12 January 2015, he was nominated by President Ashraf Ghani as Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing Ahmad Moqbel Zarar.

[1] On 21 March 2017, he spoke at a meeting organised by the Atlantic Council think-tank in Washington, D.C.[8] Rabbani resigned on 23 October 2019, accusing Ghani of sidelining him and creating parallel structures that impeded the functioning of legitimate government institutions.