Yar M. Taraky

Yar Taraky is a Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Yar Taraky is working for Stantec Consulting Ltd.
Yar is also the  Director of the Immigrant Culture and Art Association, and is teaching at the St. Clair College in Chatham Ontario, Canada.

Yar Taraky has a masters degree in Engineering, a master degree in arts and bachelor degree in international relations.
Yar Taraky is the author of several letters and recommendations to the Canadian government including the Liberal and Conservative governments on Afghanistan and the region.
Yar Taraky was a participant of the Ottawa, conference on Afghanistan organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada in 2001.
Since the fall of Taliban Yar Taraky visited Afghanistan on different occasions with the invitation of UNESCO in Kabul.
Yar Taraky brings expertise and knowledge on Afghan and regional issues. His predictions  of the sensitive political and economic process in Afghanistan brought him a good name and credibility.
Yar Taraky has been interviewed by BBC, CBC and Voice of America and a number of Afghan media on Afghanistan’s situation. He is one of the most visible immigrant cultural professionals in Canada.
His previous experience in Afghanistan includes working at the Academy of Science of Afghanistan and Kabul University and artists' Association of Afghanistan.

Affiliations:

•  Member of the City of Hamilton Art Advisory Commission.
•  Member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
•  Member of the Afghan Engineers Association.
•  Member of the Academy of Science of Afghanistan
•  President  of the Community Arts Ontario, Canada