Biography: Hamid Karzai (born 24 December 1957) is an Afghan politician who served as the seventh president of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014, particularly as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014. He also served as chairman of the Afghan Interim Administration from 2001 to 2002. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hamid Karzai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.