The government on Tuesday appointed former diplomat Khalilur Rahman as the high representative to chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Rohingya crisis and priority issues with the status of an adviser.
The Cabinet Division issued a gazette notification to the effect.聽
Khalilur Rahman joined the foreign service of Bangladesh in 1979 upon securing the first position in the first regular Bangladesh Civil Service examinations held in 1977, according to a release shared by the Chief Adviser鈥檚 Press Wing.
In the same year, he obtained his master鈥檚 degree in Economics from Dhaka University. He later studied at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University during 1980-83, and earned the degrees of MA in Law and Diplomacy and PhD in Economics.
During 1983-85, he served at the South Asia Division of foreign ministry and as a private secretary to the foreign minister.
In 1985, he was transferred to the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in New York. He represented Bangladesh at the Economic and Financial Committee of the UN General Assembly and acted as the spokesperson for the Least Developed Countries at this committee and at the Economic and Social Council of the UN.
He joined the United Nations secretariat in 1991 as a special adviser at the UN Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva.
Rahman was a lead author of and substantive contributor to several UN flagship publications as well as numerous reports of the UN Secretary-General and the UNCTAD Secretary-General on issues of trade, finance and development. 聽
In 2001, Khalilur Rahman briefly returned to the government service to serve as private secretary to the late Justice Latifur Rahman, the chief adviser of the third caretaker government.
Khalilur Rahman is a founder of the East West University in Dhaka and currently serves on its Board of Trustees.