Mohammad Ziauddin is a Bangladeshi diplomat and the former

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of the

Prime Minister of Bangladesh The prime minister of Bangladesh (, : Bāṅlādēśēr Prôdhānmôntrī), officially prime minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (, : Gôṇôprôjātôntrī Bāṅlādēśēr Prôdhānmôntrī), is the head of government of the Ba ...

. He is the former Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States.

Early life and education

Ziauddin graduated from

St Gregory's High School St. Gregory's High School & College is a Catholic school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was founded in 1882, when the city was part of British India, by Gregory De Groote, a Belgian Benedictine priest. The school, located on Municipal office street of t ...

. He completed his Intermediate of Humanities from

Notre Dame College, Dhaka Notre Dame College, Dhaka (), also known as NDC, is a catholic higher secondary and degree level educational institution founded and managed by the priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross located in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Upon th ...

; BA Honors and MA in English literature from the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (), also known as Dhaka University (DU), is a public university, public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in the country. The University of Dhaka w ...

Career

Ziauddin served in the Bangladesh High Commission in London; Bangladesh High Commission in Nairobi, Kenya; and Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations, New York. He has served as the Bangladesh Ambassador to

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, Director General (International Organizations) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Chief of Protocol to the Government of Bangladesh. He served as the Ambassador-at-Large of Prime Minister

Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina (''née'' Wazed; born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. Premiership of Sheikh Hasina, Her ...

from 24 November 2009 to 2014. He was afterwards appointed as the Bangladesh Ambassador to the

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on 18 September 2014. In 2016 he was appointed as the first Ambassador (non-resident) to

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. He was also made the first (non-resident) ambassador to

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. On 7 May 2021, he was again appointed Ambassador-at-Large of Prime Minister

with the rank of a Cabinet Minister.

Personal life

Ziauddin is married to Yasmeen Ziauddin, and has two children.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ziauddin, Mohammad 1957 births Living people Ambassadors of Bangladesh to Italy Ambassadors of Bangladesh to the United States Ambassadors of Bangladesh to Argentina High commissioners of Bangladesh to Guyana High commissioners of Bangladesh to Belize Notre Dame College, Dhaka alumni