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Published : 02 Sep 2024, 05:45 PM
The interim government has scrapped the employment contract of Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen.
According to an order issued by the public administration ministry on Monday, the remaining tenure of his contractual appointment has been terminated following Section 7 of the agreement.
Masud was appointed as the foreign secretary on Dec 31, 2019.
He was later appointed to the post of senior secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a contractual basis for a two-year term on Dec 6, 2022, when his service age limit was about to expire.
His tenure was supposed to end in the first week of December 2024.
The foreign secretary, who was appointed during Sheikh Hasina’s government, loses his job three months before the end of his tenure.
Masud belongs to the 1985 batch of the Bangladesh Civil Service (foreign affairs cadre). He holds a master’s degree in international relations from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston. He also has a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in economics from Dhaka University.
He served as Bangladesh’s ambassador to Japan from 2012 to 2015. He was also an ambassador to Italy and a permanent representative to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, World Food Programme and International Fund for Agricultural Development from 2008 to 2012.
Prior to that, he served as Bangladesh ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, and later as secretary (bilateral) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
After serving as acting foreign secretary for a few hours, the then government made his post permanent.
During his long career, he served in various capacities in Islamabad, New Delhi and Kathmandu missions.
