Supradip Chakma | |
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সুপ্রদীপ চাকমা | |
Advisor for Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs | |
Assumed office 11 August 2024 | |
President | Mohammed Shahabuddin |
Leader | Muhammad Yunus |
Adviser to the Interim Government | |
Assumed office 11 August 2024 | |
Leader | Muhammad Yunus (as Chief Adviser) |
Personal details | |
Born | 1961 Khagrachhari,East Pakistan,Pakistan |
Supradip Chakma (born 1961) is an advisor to the Bangladesh interim government. [1]
Chakma was born in 1961 in what is now Khagrachhari District (then in East Pakistan). He studied marketing at Dhaka University. [2]
He joined the foreign affairs cadre of the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1985. He was ambassador to Vietnam until 2014,when he was made ambassador to Mexico. [3]
On 11 August 2024,Supradip and Bidhan Ranjan Roy took oath as the advisers of the interim government led by Muhammad Yunus. President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered their oath in the Durbar Hall of Bangabhaban. [4]
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur,banker,economist,politician,and civil society leader who has been serving as the Chief Adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. Yunus has received several other national and international honors,including the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. Yunus is one of just seven individuals who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom,and the United States Congressional Gold Medal.
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