Hamed Wardak and Merrill Lynch

When he first began what has now become a very successful business career, Hamed Wardak worked at Merrill Lynch in different states of America. At the time, Wardak was given multi-million dollar assignments at the company. Today, Merrill Lynch enjoys success not just as a business, but also working with other organizations to try to make advancements in important areas such as health care. For example, the company recently is due to hold their Health Care Conference, with participants such as CONMED Corporation. This Corporation works with surgical devices within the medical technology area.

Wardak and Health Care

Someone like Hamed Wardak would be only too pleased with exciting new projects like this. Such a joint venture between a high-end financial management company and a medical tech company can only be beneficial to everyone involved.

Afghanistan-American Meeting

On Tuesday, May 11th, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opened key talks with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the White House. While the two nations have had recent disputes, Clinton emphasized that the United States is committed to helping Afghanistan and that they will continue to support Afghanistan long after U.S. combat troops have withdrawn from the region. This is certainly positive news for Afghan-American leaders like Hamed Wardak and the many others who have been pressing for improved relations between the two nations.

President Obama is expected to meet with President Karzai today, Wednesday, May 12th, to continue the talks.

Angelina Jolie Helping UNHCR

Certainly, every organization wants to have spokespeople and volunteers who can truly make an impact. UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency) is lucky enough to have such a person with famous actress Angelina Jolie. Since 2001, American actress Jolie has been traveling the world for UNHCR to help refugees in over 20 countries.

Other important contributors such as Hamed Wardak have also worked tirelessly to contribute to helping refugees in Afghanistan and other locations. Certainly, all of these efforts help UNHCR to get its important and difficult work accomplished.