Monwar Hossain appointed as ambassador to Myanmar
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The government has appointed Monwar Hossain as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to Myanmar.
He will be replacing Ambassador Manjurul Karim Khan Chowdhury, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release on Thursday.
Ambassador-designate Monwar Hossain is a career foreign service officer from the 20th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS)-Foreign Affairs cadre.
He is currently serving as deputy permanent representative at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN in New York.
the service in 2001, Hossain has served extensively in various capacities both at the headquarters as well as in Bangladesh missions in Washington DC and Singapore.
Hailing from Rajshahi, Monwar Hossain obtained his MBBS degree from Chattogram Medical College.
Later on, he did his Masters of Science in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the University of London and a Ph.D. in Public Health Communication from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
