Foreign Service Academy (Bangladesh)


Foreign Service Academy is a training academy for foreign service officers of the Bangladesh Civil Service under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

History

In the 1980s, the foreign service officers were trained at the Foreign Affairs Training Institute which was later merged with the Bangladesh Civil Service Administration Academy. Foreign Service Academy was established in 1996 by the government of Bangladesh to train foreign service officers after a need for specialized training was recognized. The academy started working from 1 January 1997. On 19 April 2019, the Academy opened a Genocide corner in memory of the Bangladesh genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation war.

Headquarters

The academy was decided to be located at a historic colonial era mansion known as the President's House. In the 1960s, Queen Elizabeth II stayed at the mansion. After the independence of Bangladesh, the mansion was called the Ganabhaban and made the office of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Mujib but after the building of a new Ganabhaban in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar it was converted to a state guest house named Sugandha. In 1996, it became the official headquarters of the Foreign Service Academy.

Principals and rectors

Until October 2015, the academy was led by a principal, after that by a rector.
SL No.NamePositionTerm startTerm endReference
01Ambassador M. N. I. ChaudhuryPrincipal 19811983
02Ambassador M. R. OsmanyPrincipal 19831984
03Ambassador AKM JalaluddinPrincipal 19841985
04Ambassador Humayun KabirPrincipal 19851988
05Ambassador M. Anwar HashimPrincipal Dec. 1996Jan. 1999
06Md. Touhid HossainPrincipal Jan. 1999Feb. 2000
07Ambassador Mohiuddin AhmedPrincipal Feb. 2000Jan. 2001
08Ambassador Syed Muazzem AliPrincipal Jul. 2001Dec. 2001
09Ambassador Jamil MajidPrincipal Jun. 2002Nov. 2006
10Ambassador Dr. Md. Saiful Amin KhanPrincipal Mar. 2007Aug. 2007
11Ambassador Shahed Akhter, ndcPrincipal Feb. 2008May 2009
12Md. Touhid HossainPrincipal Jul. 2009Jul. 2012
13Ambassador Mustafa KamalPrincipal Aug. 2012Jan. 2015
14Md. Shahidul HaquePrincipal Jan. 2015Oct. 2015
15Ambassador Syed Masud Mahmood KhundokerPrincipal Oct. 2015Aug. 2019
16Ambassador Syed Masud Mahmood KhundokerRectorAug. 2019Mar. 2021
17Ambassador Shabbir Ahmad Chowdhury, ndcRectorMar. 2021Oct. 2021
18Ambassador Asad Alam SiamRectorNov. 2021Jan. 2023
19Ambassador Mashfee Binte ShamsRectorJan. 2023Present