M. Shafiullah is a retired diplomat and former Ambassador of Bangladesh to Libya. [1] [2] He was a Senior Research Fellow at Bangladesh Enterprise Institute. [3] He is a former Press officer of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding President of Bangladesh. He is a director of the Centre for Governance Studies, a think-tank. [4]
Shafiullah has a master's in psychology from the University of Dhaka. [5]
During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, Shafiullah was stuck in West Pakistan. [5] He returned to independent Bangladesh by crossing the border with Afghanistan. [5] He served as the Press officer of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from 1972 to 1975. [5] [6]
Shafiullah was the Director-General for Middle East and North Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [5] In 1991 after Saddam Hossain invaded Kuwait, he worked on repatriating 70 thousand Bangladeshi expats from Kuwait. [5]
Shafiullah was made ambassador of Bangladesh to Libya in 1995. [5] He was concurrently accredited to Malta, State of Palestine, and Tunisia. [5] [7] He tried in 2001. [5] He said Afghanistan joined SAARC with the support of the United States and indirect support of India. [8]
Shafiullah was a Senior Research Fellow at Bangladesh Enterprise Institute from 2002. [5] He was the project coordinator of the Charting a Roadmap for Transition to Business-to-Business e-Commerce project of the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute. [9] He praised 2018 Bangladesh road-safety protests and the 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement. [10] He has been critical of Bangladesh-India relations describing it as unbalanced and in favor of India. [11]