Rabab Fatima Bangladesh’s new envoy to UN

The government has appointed Rabab Fatima, current Ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan, as the new Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York, reports news agency UNB.

Ambassador Rabab Fatima is a career foreign service officer belonging to 1986 batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) foreign affairs cadre, said the foreign ministry on Wednesday.

In her diplomatic career, Fatima worked in various capacities in Bangladesh missions in New York, Geneva, Kolkata and Beijing.

At the headquarters, she served in various capacities primarily in the United Nations Wing, the ministry said.

Ambassador Fatima served in lien with different international organisations, namely, the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, as Head of Human Rights (2006-2007); and with the International Organisation for Migration as the Regional Representative for South Asia, Dhaka (2007-2011) and as the Regional Coordinator and Adviser for South and South West Asia and Regional Adviser for Climate Change and Migration in IOM’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok (2012-2015).

She obtained her Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA.

Fatima is married to fellow diplomat, Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, currently serving as the Ambassador of Bangladesh to France.