Mawlawi Jan Mohammad Madani, also known as Jan Mohammad Ikram, has served as a senior adviser to the Taliban’s emir, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, since mid-2022.
During the Taliban’s first regime in the 1990s, he served as the group's ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Following the fall of the regime, he became a member of the Taliban’s religious commission. He later joined the Taliban Political Office in Qatar and served on the group’s negotiating team from 2018 to 2021.
Born in 1954, he is listed under the United Nations sanctions designation TAi.119.
