Masud Bin Momen promoted to Sr Secy

The government has promoted Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen to the rank of senior secretary.

The Public Administration Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Thursday.

Masud joined as Foreign Secretary on December 31, 2019.

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

Prior to his appointment as the Foreign Secretary, he had been Bangladesh’s ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations 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.