Dr Khalilur made High Representative

City Desk :

Dr Khalilur Rahman, a career diplomat, has been appointed as the ‘High Representative on Rohingya Problem and Priority Issues Affairs’ to Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus. The Cabinet Division on Thursday issued a gazette notification to this end, reports BSS.

While holding the post of the high representative to the chief adviser, Dr Rahman will enjoy the status, salary and allowances of an adviser to the interim government.

The notification will come into immediate effect. Dr Khalilur Rahman joined the diplomatic service of Bangladesh in 1979 upon securing the first position in the first regular BCS examinations held in 1977.

In the same year, he stood first in the first class in MA examinations in Economics at the Dhaka University.

He served as an executive at the American Express International Bank during 1978-79. Dr Rahman studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University during 1980-83, and earned the degrees of MA in Law and Diplomacy and PhD in Economics. During 1983-85, he served at the South Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Private Secretary to the Foreign Minister.

In 1985, he was transferred to the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York. He represented Bangladesh at the Economic and Financial Committee of the UN General Assembly and acted as the spokesperson of the LDCs at this Committee and at the Economic and Social Council of the UN.