The government has decided to appoint AKM Shahidul Karim as the new ambassador of Bangladesh to Bhutan.
A career diplomat, Karim who now serves as the Chief of Protocol at the foreign ministry, belongs to the 18th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (Foreign Affairs), the ministry said in a statement on Thursday (Dec 5).
An graduate of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Karim has served in various capacities at Bangladesh missions in Stockholm, Cairo and London.
He also served as Consul General in Jeddah.
Karim also participated in executive programme on trade negotiations at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as well as completed Japanese Language Course at Kansai Kokusai Center in Osaka, Japan, said the foreign ministry statement.