Shahabuddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi civil servant and ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan. [1] [2] He is a former secretary of the Ministry of Food. [3]
Ahmed was born in 1960 in Bhola District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. [4] He did his bachelor's degree and master's in soil sciences from the University of Dhaka in 1981 and 1982 respectively. [4] [5] He has a second master's in development finance from the University of Birmingham. [4]
Ahmed joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1986. [4]
In September 2009, Ahmed was promoted from senior assistant secretary to deputy secretary. [6]
Ahmed was appointed the acting secretary of the Ministry of Food in December 2017 from the Ministry of Finance. [7] From December 2017 to December 2019, Ahmed was the secretary of the Ministry of Food. [4] [8] In April 2019, he visited Harvard University to attend a Leadership in Crises executive program paid for a capacity building for civil servants projects. [9] He took his family with him whose expenses were paid by him. [9]
Ahmed was appointed the ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan in March 2020 while on post retirement leave for a three-year term. [10] [11] He replaced Ambassador Rabab Fatima who was appointed the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. [10] He inaugurated the Bangladesh booth at the Fashion World Tokyo and urged more investment from Japan in Bangladesh. [12] He has urged Japan to recruit more workers from Bangladesh. [13]