Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Crnadak congratulated to Foreign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen on his appointment as the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, the Foreign Ministry stated.
In his message, the Foreign Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina has also expressed hope that the friendly relations between the two countries would continue to develop to the benefit of the two peoples as in the interest of the peace and stability in the world.
Momen received a PhD in economics from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1988. He taught economics and business administration at Merrimack College, Salem State College, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
In 1998, he became an economic adviser at the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF). He left Saudi Arabia in the wake of the 2003 Riyadh compound bombings, and returned to Massachusetts. There he taught in the Department of Economics and Business Administration at Framingham State College until appointed Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York in August 2009.
He served as President of the UNICEF Executive Board at the international level in 2010. He was Vice President and Acting President of the 67th United Nations General Assembly.
He was President of the United Nations High-Level Committee on South-South Cooperation in 2014.
