Bangladesh appoints Samina Naz ambassador to Vietnam

Samina Naz is Bangladesh’s new ambassador to Vietnam.

She has been serving as the deputy high commissioner of the Bangladesh mission in Mumbai.

Naz will be replacing Mohammad Shahab Ullah as Dhaka’s envoy to the Southeast Asian nation. She is a foreign affairs cadre of the 15th BCS batch.

A career diplomat, Naz studied international relations at the Dhaka University.

Naz has held positions at the Bangladesh Embassy in the Netherlands and at Bangladesh’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York in different capacities in the past.