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Anwarul Bar Chowdhury
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Anwarul Bar Chowdhury (born 1946) is a retired Bangladeshi diplomat and government official. He is an Independent Director of GSP Finance Company (Bangladesh) Limited. He is a former secretary of the Ministry of Establishment.[1]
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Early life
Chowdhury was born in 1946.[2] He earned a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Dhaka.[2] He also completed a second Master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States.[2]
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Chowdhury held key government positions.[2] He served as Vice Chairman of the Export Promotion Bureau, Secretary of the Ministry of Establishment and the Ministry of Planning, and as a Member of the Planning Commission.[2][3] He was also a member of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha.[2]
From 1989 to 1993, Chowdhury was posted as Counsellor at the Embassy of Bangladesh in Warsaw, Poland.[2] Before his retirement, he served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Italy, with concurrent accreditation to Greece, Albania, and Serbia.[2] He was appointed ambassador in October 2003, replacing Mohammad Ziauddin.[4] He was also the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Agencies in Rome and the ambassador of Bangladesh to the Vatican.[2][5] He served till October 2005 and was replaced by M. Fazlul Karim.[4]
After retirement, Chowdhury worked as a Senior Consultant for the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute on a Private Sector Development Project supported by the IFC and the World Bank.[2] Chowdhury also taught at several well-known colleges and universities in Bangladesh during his professional career.[2] He is the chairman of the audit committee and an Independent Director of GSP Finance Company (Bangladesh) Limited.[6]
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