The government on Wednesday extended the service of Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen for two more years under a contractual appointment effective from December 6, 2022, as Senior Secretary.

An official notification regarding his contractual appointment as Senior Secretary of the government was issued by the Public Administration Ministry, reports Daily Sun.

As a career diplomat, he has long been serving in different capacities at the Headquarters and Bangladesh’s Missions abroad.

Before he was appointed the Foreign Secretary, he had been Bangladesh’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York since 2015.

Before that, he served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Japan from 2012 to 2015. He also served as Ambassador to Italy and Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and International Fund for Agricultural Development from 2008 to 2012.

Ambassador Masud served at the Headquarters in different capacities. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Director-General in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka and was responsible for matters related to South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Human Rights and the United Nations.

He was Deputy High Commissioner at the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, India, from 2004 to 2006, before serving as Director of Poverty Alleviation at SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 2001 to 2004.

Masud joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangladesh as an Assistant Secretary in 1988. He belongs to the Bangladesh Civil Service (Foreign Affairs) 1985 Batch.

Ambassador Masud achieved Chancellor’s Award for securing the First Class First position in Master’s Degree from the University of Dhaka.

Masud was born in Dhaka on December 6 in 1963. He is married and blessed with two children.

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