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Salahuddin Noman Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi diplomat and ambassador of Bangladesh to Nepal.[1][2] He is the former deputy high commissioner of Bangladesh to India.[3]
Chowdhury was born on 29 August 1969 in Dhaka, East Pakistan, Pakistan.[4] He did his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1993.[4]
Chowdhury worked in the private sector after his graduation before joining the foreign service branch of the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1998.[4] He worked at the Admin and United Nations Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[4] From 2002 to 2005, he was second and first secretary at the High Commission of Bangladesh in Pakistan.[4]
From 2005 to 2007, Chowdhury was stationed at the Bangladeshi consulate in New York City.[4] He then worked at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations.[4] From 2008 to 2010, he was the deputy chief of protocol of visit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[4] He would also go on to serve as the director of economic affairs and South East Asia.[4]
Chowdhury served as the vice principal of the Bangladesh Foreign Service Academy and director general of external affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[4] From 2014 to 2017, he was the Bangladesh high commissioner in India.[4] In April 2015, he sought information from the Indian government on the rape and murder of a Bangladeshi national in New Delhi.[5] In May 2017, he was transferred from India to China as Deputy Ambassador.[6]
Chowdhury was the director general of administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2017 to 2020.[4] On 11 November 2020, he was appointed the ambassador of Bangladesh to Nepal.[4][7] During his tenure an agreement on trading power was signed between Bangladesh and Nepal.[8] He oversaw the participation of Bangladesh in the Nepal trade fair.[9] He signed an agreement for Bangladesh to build a Buddhist temple in Nepal.[10] He oversaw the repatriation of a Bangladeshi woman, Ameena Khatun, from Sunsari District of Nepal.[11] Khatun has been missing from 22 years.[11] She was identified and repatriated with the help of Bengali speakers in Sunsari District and officials of National Security Intelligence personnel in Bogra District.[11]
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