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Shahjahan Mahmood is a Bangladeshi technocrat and chairman of the Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited.[1][2] He is the former chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.[3][4]
Mahmood completed his undergraduate studies in engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.[5] He completed his master's degree in operation research and PhD in systems engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5]
Mahmood was a systems engineer at Marine Corps Base Quantico and later at Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center from 2004 to 2012.[5][6]
On 24 September 2015, Mahmood was appointed chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission replacing Sunil Kanti Bose.[7] Initially Iqbal Mahmood was appointed chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission but that decision was cancelled within a week and was replaced by Shahjahan Mahmood.[8] He briefly blocked Facebook, Viber, and WhatsApp in Bangladesh.[9]
In March 2017, Mahmood announced he was ready to shut down Facebook in Bangladesh if instructed by the government.[10] He recommended that the government terminate Golam Razzaque, director of Bangabandhu-1 satellite, which the government did.[11] He left the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission in 2018 and was replaced by Md Jahirul Haque.[12]
As chairman of the Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Limited, Mahmood oversaw the launch of Bangabandhu-1, the first satellite of Bangladesh.[13]
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