A. H. M. Moniruzzaman
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A. H. M. Moniruzzaman, (Bengali: এ. এইচ. এম. মনিরুজ্জামান; born 1950), is a career diplomat in the Bangladesh Foreign Service. He served as the head of Bangladesh's Mission to the European Commission in Brussels and Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg from September 2006 until December 2008.[1] He was concurrently Ambassador to Switzerland.[2]
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Biography
Moniruzzaman was born on 1 January 1952 in Birbhum of West Bengal, India.[citation needed] He is married with two children. Ambassador Moniruzzaman writes on international relations and political science. He worked on the editorial board of the Millennium, a journal on international affairs published by the London School of Economics and Political Science, during 1973 – 1975.[citation needed]
Education and training
He attended high school in India.[citation needed] Then he obtained B.A. with a First Class from the University of the Punjab in 1972. He studied economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and obtained B.Sc. in 1975. He secured M.Sc. in international relations from University College London in 1976.[3] After joining Bangladesh Foreign Service, he attended the Graduate Institute of International Studies in the University of Geneva where he received a Certificate in Diplomatic Studies in 1989. In 1986 he attended a professional course on international law at the Hague Academy of International Law under UN/UNITAR International Law Fellowship. He also participated in UN/UNITAR course on international economics for diplomats at the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank, Washington, in 1987.
Career
After returning to Bangladesh, Moniruzzaman joined the University of Dhaka in 1977 as Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations.[3] He served there until February 1979[citation needed]. In 1979 he was appointed as Section Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Subsequently he was encadred in the Bangladesh Civil Service in the Foreign Affairs cadre when it was constituted in 1981. In course of his diplomatic career, Moniruzzaman worked in Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Calcutta, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York and Embassies of Bangladesh in Kuwait and Paris. Before coming to Brussels, he was serving as the Secretary (Multilateral Economic Affairs) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka.[citation needed]. Moniruzzaman also headed the Economic Affairs Department of the General Secretariat of the OIC in Jeddah from 2000 to 2005.[citation needed]
Special diplomatic assignments
He served as a delegation of Bangladesh in the UN Committee for Program and Coordination during 1985-89. He also attended numerous multilateral meetings held at the UN Headquarters in New York representing Bangladesh during 1984-87. He was in the Group of experts on Financial and Administrative Matters of the finance and Administrative Commission of the UNESCO Executive Board during the Group’s mandate period of 1996-97 and 1998-99. He Led the Bangladesh delegation to the 23rd session of the Islamic Commission for Economic, Cultural and Social Affairs held in Jeddah in 2000. Also, he was a member of the Bangladesh delegation to the Third Extraordinary Summit of the OIC held in Makkah in 2005. Moreover, he served as a Member of the Bangladesh Delegation to SAARC and BIMSTEC meetings on several occasions.[citation needed]
Publications
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni
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- Ambassadors of Bangladesh to Belgium
- Ambassadors of Bangladesh to Luxembourg
- Ambassadors of Bangladesh to Switzerland