Mission Statement
AEI’s aim is to research and analyze, publicize, promote, articulate and influence policy issues and measures of crucial importance to the development of private competitive enterprise in Afghanistan. It's social goal is to stimulate enactment of policies that expand private sector investment, employment and productive efficiency. It is an Afghan-led center that is close enough to the government to assure that policy makers and practitioners find its products useful, but politically and administratively independent from the government and other special interest organizations, so that it can offer needed critiques. AEI will also serve training and brokering functions for professional personnel who move between the public and private sectors.
AEI is a non-profit institute, patterened after several private sector oriented think tanks in the USA. It si directed by Afghan professionals and associates and linked to universities and other policy institutes in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world. It is a center for economic policy research and analysis, training for researchers and long-term research and civil service capacity building –in strategic fields of private sector economics. The expectation is that Afghan institutions will be more successful in beneficially influencing public policy and the ownership and performance of public officials. In this connection, AEI draws on extensive related experience of similar institutes in successful regional countries.

Institutional Sponsors
AEI was founded jointly by the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC) and the Afghan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC), currently as a "virtual" policy institute, but with the expectation of attaining status as a non-profit organizational entity registered in Afghanistan. It is expected that funding will consist mainly of philenthropic grants and subscriptions, primarily from businesses and individual businessesmen.