Honourable A. K. Abdul Momen | |
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এ. কে. আব্দুল মোমেন | |
Member of Parliament | |
Assumed office 7 January 2019 | |
Preceded by | Abul Maal Abdul Muhith |
Constituency | Sylhet-1 |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 7 January 2019 –10 January 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali |
Succeeded by | Hasan Mahmud |
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations | |
In office 26 August 2009 –30 October 2015 | |
Preceded by | Ismat Jahan |
Succeeded by | Masud Momen |
President of UNICEF | |
In office 2010–2010 | |
Preceded by | Oumar Daou |
Succeeded by | Sanja Štiglic |
Personal details | |
Born | Sylhet,East Bengal,Dominion of Pakistan | 23 August 1947
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Parents |
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Relatives | AM Abdul Muhith (brother) Shahla Khatun (sister) Abdul Hamid (granduncle) |
Alma mater | |
Abul Kalam Abdul Momen (born 23 August 1947), known as AK Abdul Momen, is a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat, and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh from January 2019 to January 2024. He served as Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations from August 2009 until October 2015. [1] He was elected a member of Jatiya Sangsad from the Sylhet-1 constituency at the 2018 general elections. [2] Following his election, he was appointed the minister of foreign affairs by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. [3]
Momen was born on 23 August 1947, to a Bengali Muslim political family in Sylhet. His father, Abu Ahmad Abdul Hafiz, a lawyer, who was one of the founders of the Sylhet branch of the All-India Muslim League and took part in the Pakistan Movement. [4] His mother, Syeda Shahar Banu, was one of the leading women of the Bengali language movement. He was one of fourteen children. His elder brother was AM Abdul Muhith, a former Minister of Finance of Bangladesh, and his sister is Shahla Khatun, a physician and National Professor of Bangladesh. [5]
Momen passed the matriculation exam from Sylhet Government Pilot High School. He attended the University of Dhaka and earned a BA in economics in 1969, and an MA in development economics in 1971. [6]
Momen became a civil servant, serving as private secretary to the Minister of Rural Development, Local Government and Cooperatives from 1973 to 1974; private secretary to the Minister of Trade and Commerce, and Mineral Resources and Petroleum from 1974 to 1975; Section Officer, South Asia, East Asia and Middle East, Ministry of Commerce from 1975 to 1976; and Director, Office of the President's Advisor on Trade and Commerce from 1976 to 1978. Meanwhile, he completed an LLB in law and jurisprudence from Central College, Dhaka, in 1976. [6]
Momen continued his education in the United States, receiving a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD in economics from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1988. [6] He taught economics and business administration at Merrimack College, Salem State College, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. [7]
In 1998, Momen became an economic adviser at the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF). He left Saudi Arabia in the wake of the 2003 Riyadh compound bombings, and returned to Massachusetts. There he taught in the Department of Economics and Business Administration at Framingham State College until appointed Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in August 2009. [6]
Momen served as president of the UNICEF Executive Board at the international level in 2010. [8] [9] He was vice president and Acting President of the 67th United Nations General Assembly. [10] He was the president of the United Nations High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation in 2014. [10]
Momen's elder brother, Bangladesh's Minister of Finance Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, hoped that Momen would succeed him as a member of the parliament representing the Sylhet-1 constituency in the 2018 general election, which he eventually won. [11] [2]
Yahoo news [12] reports that Abdul Momen said in February 2020 that Bangladesh had “no obligation” to provide shelter to Rohingya refugees who were stranded in the Andaman Sea on a ship. He asked the UNHCR to take the responsibility. [13] [14]
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