Riaz Hamidullah is the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in New Delhi.
Days after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Chief Adviser Mohammed Yunus on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC summit in Bangkok, Dhaka has sent its new High Commissioner to India. Riaz Hamidullah, a 1995 batch officer of the Bangladesh Foreign Service, arrived here on Monday to take charge as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh, sources have confirmed.
Mr. Hamidullah was appointed as the High Commissioner of Bangladesh in India in February but his arrival was delayed as India-Bangladesh relations had taken a nosedive. His arrival is therefore being viewed as a positive outcome of the meeting between Mr. Modi and Mr. Yunus in Bangkok.
The previous High Commissioner of Bangladesh Mustafizur Rahman who was appointed during Sheikh Hasina’s tenure served till October 2024 and ever since the post had been vacant.
An alumnus of the Aligarh Muslim University and Dhaka University, Mr. Hamidullah was till recently Secretary (West) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in Dhaka. Prior to that, he also served briefly as the Foreign Secretary in charge. He has served as the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka and the Netherlands.
Mr. Hamidullah has previously served as Director General of the Europe and the European Union Wing, and the Multilateral Economic Affairs Wing at MoFA, Dhaka.
He is known for his experience in SAARC-related affairs as he had been posted as Director at the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu and was briefly posted in the Bangladesh High Commission here.
Published – April 07, 2025 10:29 pm IST