Director
Mr. Md. Mosharaf Hossain is a career diplomat from Bangladesh Foreign Service 22nd batch (December 2003) and currently serving as one of the Directors at the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Secretariat in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He joined the BIMSTEC Secretariat on 11th February 2020 as the Director from Bangladesh.
Prior to his current appointment Mr. Hossain was serving as a Director at the Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh. Earlier, Mr. Hossain served as a Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh. He also served at different capacities at the Bangladesh High Commission in Canberra, Australia and Embassy of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
During his more than sixteen years of diplomatic career, he attended several international summits and conferences including 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, 14th Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Havana, 22nd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2011) in Perth, 41st Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah among others.
Md Mosharaf Hossain obtained his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka. He did his Masters of International Affairs from the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia. He also received professional training on International Relations and Diplomatic Practice from the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael, The Hague. Apart from that, he took part in professional and various other important trainings and seminars both at home and abroad.
He is married and blessed with two children.