Saida Muna Tasneem | |
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সাঈদা মুনা তাসনিম | |
![]() Tasneem in 2019 | |
Bangladesh High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
Assumed office 30 November 2018 | |
President | |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | Md. Nazmul Quaunine |
Bangladesh Ambassador to the Thailand and Cambodia | |
In office 14 November 2014 –23 October 2018 | |
President | Abdul Hamid |
Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
Preceded by | Kazi Imtiaz Hossain |
Succeeded by | Md. Nazmul Quaunine |
Personal details | |
Born | Dhaka,East Pakistan |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Spouse | Tauhidul Chaudhury |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Diplomat |
Saida Muna Tasneem is a Bangladeshi diplomat who has served as High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to Ireland and Liberia since November 2018. She is the first woman to hold these positions. She is the incumbent First Vice-President to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since January 2024. [1] She was formerly the High Commissioner to Thailand and Cambodia and Bangladesh's representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. [2]
Tasneem was born in Dhaka in the then East Pakistan. [3] Her family moved to Beirut,Lebanon in 1975 in order for her father to complete his Ph.D. at the American University of Beirut. They later moved back to Dhaka in 1979 where Tasneem completed high school at the Holy Cross Girls' High School. [3] She attended the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and graduated in 1988 with a bachelor's in Chemical Engineering. [4] [5] She later completed her master's in public policy and management at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. [6]
Tasneem started her career at the Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1993. [5]
The Bangladeshi Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled Tasneem from her posting to Bangladesh's United Nations mission in June 2004. [7]
Tasneem was appointed as the Ambassador for Bangladesh to Thailand and Cambodia on 14 November 2014. [8] She met with then-Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn,representing King Rama IX,on 4 September 2015,to present her credentials. [9]
As an ambassador,it was one of Tasneem's priorities to strengthen religious tourism between the two countries. [10] Md Nazmul Quaunine took over for Tasneem as the High Commissioner to Thailand on 23 October 2018. [11]
On 30 November 2018,Tasneem was appointed as the 20th High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,and an ambassador to Ireland and Liberia,succeeding Md Nazmul Quaunine. She became the first woman appointed to the position. [12] [13]
On 1 May 2019,Tasneem attended a reception at Buckingham Palace,where she presented Quaunine's letter of recall and her letter of credence to Queen Elizabeth II. During the meeting,Tasneem wished the Queen for good health and prosperity,and made the request for two forests in Bangladesh (one of which being Lawachara National Park) [14] to be included under the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy —while the Queen praised Bangladesh's economic growth and empowerment of women. [15]
On 21 November 2019,Tasneem met the Irish president Michael D. Higgins at the Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin,Ireland. Tasneem thanked Higgins for his support of the Bangladeshi diaspora within Ireland,while Higgins professed his admiration of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sheltering of 1.1 million Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar. [16] She also openly invited Higgins to open an Irish embassy in Dhaka and to frequently hold bilateral talks to improve relations.[ citation needed ]
In 2014,Tasneem was appointed as Bangladesh's permanent representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). At the 72nd session of the commission in May 2016,she helped table a resolution titled "Regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific to promote the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans,seas and marine resources for sustainable development",that was co-sponsored by Australia,India,and Sri Lanka,based upon Sheikh Hasina's blue economy policies. [17] The resolution passed unanimously. [18]
Tasneem is also Bangladesh's representative to the International Maritime Organization. [19]
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