Saber Hossain Chowdhury
OF
সাবের হোসেন চৌধুরী
Chowdhury in 2023
Special Covoy of Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Assumed office
12 June 2023
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded byHussain Muhammad Ershad
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Dhaka-9
Assumed office
25 January 2009
Preceded byKhandokar Mahbub Uddin Ahmad
Deputy Minister of Ministry of Shipping
In office
1 January 1998 – 15 July 2001
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded byDhirendra Debnath Shambhu[1]
President of Bangladesh Cricket Board
In office
04 July 1996 – 19 August 2001
Preceded byMustafizur Rahman
Succeeded byM Akmal Hossain
Personal details
Born (1961-09-10) 10 September 1961
Feni, East Pakistan, Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
RelativesThe Chowdhury family of Chittagong
Alma mater
Websitesaberchowdhury.com

Saber Hossain Chowdhury, OF (born 10 September 1961) is a Bangladeshi politician and incumbent Member of Parliament of Dhaka-9 constituency since 2008. He was the President of Inter-Parliamentary Union from 2014 to 2017.[2][3][4] He is a former president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board. He received the Order of Friendship, Russia's highest state decoration.[5]

Education and early career

Chowdhury's father was Hedayat Hossain Chowdhury,[6] the founder of Karnaphuli Group, a conglomerate in Bangladesh. He was a graduate of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and holds a double honors degree in economics and politics. He has also received a diploma in law from University of Westminster, United Kingdom. Having begun his career in the private sector as an entrepreneur, Chowdhury embraced full-time politics in 1996.

Political career

Chowdhury is the incumbent member of Jatiya Sangsad from Dhaka-9.[7] He served as Deputy Minister of Ministry of Ports & Shipping and, later, as Deputy Minister for Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives (1999-2001). He was the youngest Member of the Cabinet during this period. At Political Party Level Chowdhury was appointed in October 2001 as Political Secretary to President of Bangladesh Awami League, Sheikh Hasina, who was then the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. Shortly thereafter, he was elected Organizing Secretary of the party with responsibility for Dhaka Division. He was appointed as Special convoy of Prime Minister for Climate Change on 12 June 2023.[8]

Inter Parliamentary Union

Chowdhury was the 28th President of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). He was elected to the position on 16 October 2014 for a term of 3 years and is the first Bangladeshi to hold this post.[9][10] IPU is the world organization of parliaments and is the focal point for worldwide parliamentary dialogue. IPU supports the efforts of and works in close cooperation with United Nations whose objectives its shares. It enjoys Permanent Observer status at the UN. As IPU President Chowdhury is also a member of the high-level group - Every Woman Every Child - a global movement to champion the health of women, children and adolescents led by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

First elected as a member of parliament from a central constituency in Dhaka-9 in June 1996, Chowdhury has been prominent in the enactment, through Private Member Bills, of groundbreaking legislation such as repeal of the Leper's Act. Now serving his third term in the Parliament, he is Chair of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Jute and Textiles. Saber Hossain Chowdhury has been actively involved in Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) initiatives and served as a CPA resource person on orientation and capacity-building for Members of Parliament from Africa and the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) at the meeting of the Small Island and the Developing States Study Group on the Role of Parliament in Climate Change, held in Zanzibar, Tanzania, in May 2011. As Chair of the Asian Advisory Group of Parliamentarians for Disaster Risk Reduction and Global Champion of the United Nations Office on Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Chowdhury has worked with parliamentarians in Seoul in 2012 and Vientiane in 2014.

Awards and Associations

Chowdhury awarded by World Health Organization (WHO) on World No Tobacco Day.[11]

On 15 October 2017, Chowdhury was awarded by Vladimir Putin the "Order of Friendship" the highest state honour provided to foreigners for his contribution to global development through IPU.[12]

Chowdhury is a Councillor of the World Future Council, a Hamburg, Germany based non-profit organisation committed to a healthy planet with just and peaceful societies. Their work identifies, develops, examines and disseminates future-oriented solutions to current challenges that humanity is facing. CHowdhury is on of 50 global change makers from civil society, science, politics and business, who advise and inform the WFC´s work.

References

  1. ↑ "6 new ministers take oath, 2 promoted". The Daily Star. 1 January 1998. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
  2. ↑ "Past IPU Presidents". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  3. ↑ Mahmood, Raihan (5 January 2014). "Joyful Joy and Durjoy". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Saber Chowdhury visits Turkey as IPU president". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Saber Hossain Chowdhury receives Russia's highest state honour". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Hedayet Hossain Chowdhury Obituary". The Daily Star. 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
  7. ↑ "Constituency 182_10th_En". Bangladesh Parliament.
  8. ↑ "Saber Hossain Chowdhury appointed PM Hasina's 'special envoy for climate change'". The Business Standard. 13 June 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  9. ↑ "PM wants S Asia parliaments to allocate budgets for SDGs". The Daily Star. 31 January 2016.
  10. ↑ "Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)". www.ipu.org.
  11. ↑ "Mr. Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Bangladesh Member of Parliament, awarded by World Health Organization (WHO) on World No Tobacco Day". South-East Asia Regional Office.
  12. ↑ "Russia honours Saber Chy with 'Order of Friendship'". The Daily Star. 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2023-08-09.
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