The government has extended the tenure of Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen by two more years under a contractual appointment effective from December 6 or the date of his joining.
The Ministry of Public Administration issued a gazette notification on Wednesday regarding the contractual appointment.
Masud joined as the foreign secretary on December 31, 2019.
As a career diplomat, he has long been serving in different capacities at the headquarters and Bangladesh’s missions abroad.
Prior to his appointment as the foreign secretary, he had been Bangladesh’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations since 2015.
Before that, he served as Bangladesh’s ambassador to Japan from 2012 to 2015.
He also served as ambassador to Italy and permanent representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme (WFP) and International Fund for Agricultural Development from 2008 to 2012.
From 2006 to 2008, Masud was the director general at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was responsible for matters related to South Asia, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), Human Rights and the United Nations.
