Masud Bin Momen to be new Bangladesh envoy to UN

Staff Correspondent: The Government has decided to appoint Masud Bin Momen as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York.

He will be replacing Dr. A K Abdul Momen, said a press release of Ministry of Foreign Affairs External Publicity Wing.

Masud Bin Momen, a career diplomat, belongs to the 1985 batch of BCS (FA) cadre.

Currently he is serving as Bangladesh Ambassador to Japan. Prior to this assignment he had another ambassadorial assignment in Italy. Besides those assignments, he served in Bangladesh Permanent Mission in New York, Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi and Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad in different capacities.

Previously, Momen also worked in the SAARC Secretariat as a Director.

Masud Bin Momen obtained MSS in Economics from the University of Dhaka. Later he completed an MA in International Relations from the Tufts University, USA. He is married and blessed with two children.

risingbd/Dhaka/Nov 3, 2015/Nasim