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Ambassador Farooq Sobhan, currently distinguished fellow & board member of the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) has joined the Cosmos Foundation as its Honorary Advisor Emeritus.
Ambassador Sobhan, former President and CEO of the BEI, was Executive Chairman, Board of Investment (BoI) and Special Envoy to the Prime Minister 1997-1999 and Foreign Secretary 1995-1997.
He has also served as Ambassador/High Commissioner to India, China, Malaysia and the United Nations.
Referring to his joining the Cosmos Foundation Advisory Board, Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, the Foundation’s President said Farooq Sobhan does the Foundation great honour. "He is a person of prodigious experience, and I have no doubt will add enormous value to our contributions!”
Ambassador Sobhan served as Chairman of the Group of 77 at the UN 1982-1983, and was Chairman, UN Commission on TNCs 1991-1992.
He is a member of the Board of Governors of the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies
(SACEPS), based in New Delhi and was Co-Chairman of the Coalition for South Asian Co-operation (CASAC) from 1994-2001.
Ambassador Sobhan was a visiting professor at the Elliott School for International Affairs at George Washington University in 2003, where he taught a post graduate course on South Asia.
