The government has appointed Md Monwar Hossain as the next ambassador of Bangladesh to Myanmar.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed this in a press release on Thursday.
He will be replacing ambassador Manjurul Karim Khan Chowdhury.
He is currently serving as Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the UN in New York.
Ambassador-designate Hossain is a career foreign service officer from the 20th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS)-Foreign Affairs cadre.
He has served extensively in various capacities both at the Headquarters as well as in such Bangladesh Missions as Washington DC and Singapore.
Hossain obtained his MBBS degree from Chattogram Medical College. Later, he did his Masters of Science in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from University of London and a PhD in Public Health Communication from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.