Zafar Hashemi (Persian: ظفر هاشمی; born February 17, 1985) is an Afghan-American who serves as special advisor on Afghanistan for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).

He was also the deputy (and for nine months acting) spokesperson of the President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani until January 2017.

[1] An ethnic Tajik, Hashemi fled Afghanistan as a child to Pakistan during the Taliban regime.

Before immigrating to the United States in 2007, Hashemi managed communication and public affairs of Afghanistan Stabilization Program (ASP) under the Interior Ministry, and prior to that he was a journalist and a radio presenter for Nawa 103.1 FM in 2007, and later at AWAZ.

[2] He later became a television presenter and journalist at Voice of America (VOA) in Washington DC.