H.E. Mohammed Nazmul Quaunine the new High Commissioner for Bangladesh is career foreign service officer of the Bangladesh Civil Service. He is a graduate of the Dhaka Medical College, University of Dhaka.
Mr Quaunine took up his assignment as the High Commissioner of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom on 28 October 2016. He had earlier served as the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Indonesia from February 2013 to October 2016 and was concurrently accredited as non-resident Ambassador to Timor-Leste and High Commissioner to the Papua New Guinea. Prior to Indonesia, Mr. Quaunine was the Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Arab Emirates from July 2008 to February 2013.
In his diplomatic career, he had served as the Director General in charge of the Europe and EU Wing and also External Publicity Wing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka from June 2006 to June 2008. Earlier he had also served as the Deputy High Commissioner in the Bangladesh High Commission in London, United Kingdom and Bangladesh High Commission in Islamabad, Pakistan, Counsellor in the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C. and Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata and First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN Offices and other International Organisations in Geneva.
He is married to Syeda Mustari Rahman and they have a son and a daughter.
1) What is your current position?
High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the Court of St James.
2) What are your proudest achievements?
As Ambassador of Bangladesh helping employment of 1.5 Bangladeshis in the UAE and on arrival visas for Bangladeshis in Indonesia.
3) What inspires you?
Working for my country.
4) What has been the biggest obstacle in your career?
Not being able to decide myself on matters that need decisions of many authorities.
5) Who has been the biggest influence on your career to date?
My parents.
6) What is the best aspect about your current role?
To encourage and involve as many members of half a million British Bangladeshis living in the UK to contribute in Bangladesh-UK relations.
7) And the worst?
When I find myself not being able to make any headway in many problems of the Bangladesh diaspora in the UK and do not get desired results.
8) What are your long term goals?
Further improvement of UK-Bangladesh relations and forge a special relations between our two countries.
9) If you were Prime Minister, what one aspect would you change?
To make people to people contact further easier and enforce peoples’ capacity as much as possible.
