Hasan Mahmud | |
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হাসান মাহমুদ | |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
Assumed office 11 January 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | AK Abdul Momen |
Member of Parliament | |
Assumed office 7 January 2014 | |
Preceded by | Moin Uddin Khan Badal |
Constituency | Chittagong-7 |
In office 29 December 2008 – 6 January 2014 | |
Succeeded by | A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury |
Constituency | Chittagong-6 |
Minister of Information and Broadcasting | |
In office 7 January 2019 – 10 January 2024 | |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | Hasanul Haq Inu |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change | |
In office 29 November 2011 – 24 January 2014 | |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | Chowdhury Sajjadul Karim |
Succeeded by | Anwar Hossain Manju |
Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change | |
In office 1 August 2009 – 28 November 2011 | |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | Jafrul Islam Chowdhury |
Succeeded by | Vacant |
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs | |
In office 8 January 2009 – 31 July 2009 | |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury |
Succeeded by | Shahriar Alam |
Personal details | |
Born | Muhammad Hasan Mahmud 5 June 1963 Chittagong, East Pakistan, ( Present day Bangladesh) |
Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Education | Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Chemistry |
Alma mater | |
Muhammad Hasan Mahmud (born 5 June 1963) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician who is the incumbent Member of Parliament from Chittagong-7 constituency. [1] In January 2019, he appointed as the Bangladesh Minister of Information. [2] Currently he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bangladesh. He is also a Joint Secretary of the Bangladesh Awami League.
Muhammad Hasan Mahmud was born on 5 June 1963 in Chittagong. He completed his bachelor's and master's in chemistry from the University of Chittagong in 1987 and 1989 respectively. [3] He completed a second masters from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in environmental science in 1996. [4] He earned his PhD in environmental chemistry from Transnational University Limburg in 2001. [4]
In 1977, Mahmud joined Bangladesh Chhatra League. [4] And in 1988 he became the President of Bangladesh chhatra league,Chittagong University unit
During 1996–2001, Mahmud served as the political and parliamentary affairs adviser to then prime minister Sheikh Hasina. [5] In 2001, he was appointed special assistant to then opposition leader of parliament, Sheikh Hasina. [4] He was appointed the Secretary of Environment and Forest affair of Awami League. [4]
Mahmud was the Jatiya Sangsad member from Chittagong-6 constituency during 2008–2014. [6] He had received 101,340 votes while his nearest rival of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, received 72,073 votes. [7]
Mahmud was appointed as the state minister for foreign affairs in January 2009 in Sheikh Hasina's cabinet but 6 months later he was moved to the position of state minister for environment and forests. [8] [9] [10] In November 2011, he was promoted to the full minister of environment and forest and served the position until the end of 2013. [5] [11]
Mahmud was elected to parliament from Chittagong-7 in 2014 as a candidate of Awami League in an uncontested election. [12] In the election 50 percent of the seats were won without a vote as the main opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led alliance boycotted the election. [13]
Mahmud was re-elected to parliament from Chittagong-7 in 2018 as a candidate of Awami League. [14] He had received 217,155 votes while his nearest rival from Liberal Democratic Party, Md Nurul Alam, received 6,065 votes. [14]
In September 2022, Mahmud was nominated to the Awami League Local Government Public Representative Nomination Board. [15] Secretary Md Mokbul Hossain at the Information Ministry under Mahmud was sent to forced retirement in October. [16] [17]
Mahmud is married to Nuran Fatema Hasan. [11]