Riaz Hamidullah appointed as Bangladesh’s new envoy to India

M Riaz Hamidullah has been appointed Bangladesh’s new High Commissioner to India.

He will replace former High Commissioner Mustafizur Rahman.

New Delhi accepted Bangladesh’s agreemo in November 2024 following the Indian Ocean Conference in Muscat, Oman.

Hamidullah is expected to assume his new role in mid-March.

Hamidullah joined the Bangladesh Civil Service (foreign affairs cadre) in 1995 as part of the 15th batch. Currently, he is serving as an additional foreign secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). Earlier, he served as an ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Netherlands.

 Over the years, he has served in key diplomatic positions, including at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations from 1999 to 2003 and the Bangladesh High Commission in India from 2003 to 2005.

From 2008 to 2011, he served as a SAARC Secretariat director in Kathmandu.

In 2011, he was appointed MoFA director general and was concurrently accredited as Bangladesh’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

He was Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

Hamidullah completed his undergraduate degree in Economics at Aligarh Muslim University in 1993 and earned his Master’s in Economics from Dhaka University in 1995.