Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali
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| আবুল হাসান মাহমুদ আলী | |
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Ali in 2016
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| Member of Parliament for Dinajpur-4 |
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Assumed office January 2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Minister of Disaster Management and Relief of Bangladesh | |
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In office December 2012 – November 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Foreign Minister of Bangladesh | |
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Assumed office November 2013 |
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| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Preceded by | Dipu Moni |
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2 June 1943 Dinajpur, Bengal, British India (now in Bangladesh) |
| Political party | Awami League |
| Religion | Islam |
Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali (Bengali: আবুল হাসান মাহমুদ আলী) (born 2 June 1943) is a Bangladeshi politician and diplomat who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh since 2013. He previously served as Minister of Disaster Management and Relief from 2012 to 2013.
Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali was born on 2 June 1943 in Daktarpara, Khamar Bishnuganj (Tangua Post Office), Khansama, Dinajpur (now in Bangladesh). He received a B.A. with Honours (1962) and an M.A. degree in Economics (1963) from Dhaka University. He was a lecturer in economics at Dhaka University from 1964 to 1966.
He joined the Pakistan Foreign Service (then including Bangladesh) in 1966 and was posted as Vice-Consul of Pakistan in New York City in 1968. Immediately after arriving in New York in 1968, he began to organise the small Bangladeshi community in the United States.
He joined the Bangladesh independence movement, in April 1971, and was appointed as the representative to the United States from the provisional government of Bangladesh at Mujibnagar, in May 1971. Ali fought for Bangladesh independence in the US and at the United Nations. He was executive assistant to Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, Chief Overseas Representative of the Mujibnagar government, and leader of the Bangladesh delegation to the United Nations.
After the declaration of Bangladesh's independence, Ali served as representative to the United Nations and later as Acting Consul-General in New York City.
Subsequently, he served in various capacities at the Foreign Ministry in Dhaka and at Bangladesh missions abroad. He served, from 1977 to 1979, as First Secretary, Counsellor and Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi, India. At the foreign ministry, from 1979 to 1982, Ali served as Director-General for Administration, for International Organisations, for United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, for Policy Planning for South Asia, and for Human Rights. From 1983 to 1986, Ali was Deputy Chief of Mission with the rank of Ambassador, in Beijing, China. From 1986 to 1990, he was Ambassador to Bhutan.
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