Biographical Note

NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF BANGLADESH PRESENTS CREDENTIALS

 

(Based on information received from the Protocol and Liaison Service.)

Ismat Jahan, the new Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, today presented her credentials to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Prior to her current appointment, Ms. Jahan served as her country’s Ambassador in The Hague.  From 2001 to 2003, she held the post of Deputy High Commissioner at the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi.  From 1998 to 2001, she served with Bangladesh’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations at Geneva.  From 1988 to 1994, Ms. Jahan served as Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York.

A career diplomat, Ms. Jahan has been a member of the Bangladesh civil service since 1982, with various assignments in several wings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including South-East Asia and the Pacific, International Organizations, Americas and the Pacific, and West Asia, South Asia and Africa.

Earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of Dhaka in 1983, Ms. Jahan also received a Master of Arts degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston in 1986.  Among her other academic achievements, Ms. Jahan earned a certificate with distinction from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1996.  She also earned a certificate in Spanish language from the University of California at Berkeley in 1986.

Born on 3 June 1960, Ms. Jahan is single.

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