DHAKA: Tarique Rahman’s government has appointed Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury as the country’s new foreign secretary.
Ambassador Noman joined the Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1998. Before his UN assignment, he served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Nepal from November 2020 to December 2024. A career diplomat, Ambassador Siam joined the Bangladesh foreign service in 1995 and has held several key diplomatic and administrative positions during his career. From 2023 to 2024, Siam served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to Austria, with concurrent accreditation to Hungary and Slovenia.
At the foreign ministry headquarters, he served in several wings, including the United Nations, Economic Affairs, Administration, Protocol, External Publicity and Southeast Asia, as well as at the Foreign Service Academy. Before his most recent assignment, he served as Bangladesh’s Ambassador to the United States, with concurrent accreditation to Guyana, and as the country’s Permanent Representative to the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He also represented Bangladesh at the United Nations Office in Vienna and the OPEC Fund as Permanent Representative.
Newly appointed foreign secretary Noman previously served as Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York before returning to the ministry’s headquarters in Dhaka. Officials at the ministry of foreign affairs on Sunday bade farewell to outgoing foreign secretary Asad Alam Siam and welcomed his successor, Noman Chowdhury.