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Farooq Sobhan

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Distingushed Fellow, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, Bangladesh

Ambassador Sobhan was Executive Chairman, Board of Investment (BOI) and Special envoy to the Prime Minister 1997-1999 and Foreign Secretary 1995-1997. He has also served as Ambassador/High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India, China, Malaysia and the United Nations. He served as Chairman of the Group 77 at the UN 1982-1983, and was Chairman , UN Commission on TNCs 1991-1992. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS), based in New Delhi and was Co-Chairman of the Coalition for South Asia Co-operation(CASAC) from 1994-2001. He was visiting professor at the Elliott School for International Affairs at George Washington University in 2003, where he taught a post graduate course on South Asia.

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