Dr. Ramazan Ahmadi is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Afghanistan Research Initiative.

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Bamyan University, Afghanistan. He holds a PhD in sociology from Akdeniz University, Turkey, and a master’s in economic sociology from Al-Farabi University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. His current research is on “An Economic and Sociological Examination of Opportunities, Challenges, and Agricultural Development Policies in Bamyan Province," which is based on a survey and uses economic sociology insights to understand the social, cultural, economic, and government policy factors that frame farmers' decisions. His latest publication is R. Ahmadi and M.R. Akbari, Social Harms of “Child Labor in Afghanistan: Case Study of Bamyan City,” Journal of Social and Political Sciences, 7(2), 2024.