Wais Ahmad Barmak (born 1972) is an Afghan politician who served as the Minister of Interior.
He then went on to receive an MSc degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London (2004).
[5] Barmak was Senior Advisor to the Department of Disaster Management and Preparedness and became a high-level civil servant in the Afghan Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) in 2004.
[8] He became Ghani's advisor in the Northern Zone, tasked to evaluate performance of officials and government agencies and fight corruption.
[9] In October 2015 Barmak became a minister again, when he was appointed to lead the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority, which was being upgraded to ministry.