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Martine van Bijlert

Martine van Bijlert is co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based, non-profit, policy research organisation. She has spent over 12 years working and living in the region, among others as NGO aid worker in Kabul under the Taleban, diplomat for the Netherlands Embassy in Tehran, political adviser to the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan, and independent analyst among others advising the Netherlands Embassy on their activities in Uruzgan. She has travelled extensively through Afghanistan and is fluent in Dari.

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