Dipu Moni

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Dipu Moni (* 1965 in Dhaka ) is a politician from Bangladesh , she was Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2013.

biography

After completing school, she completed studies at Dhaka Medical College , the first medical school in the country, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Science , and at the Johns Hopkins University of Public Health, where she earned a Masters in Public Health. She later studied law at the National University of Bangladesh, from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), as well as at the University of London , which she completed with a Master of Laws (LL.M.). She also took courses in negotiation and conflict resolution at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University . After returning to Bangladesh , she was admitted to the bar and practiced in various courts.

Dipu Moni is the daughter of MA Wadud, a close companion of Mujibur Rahman and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy . Like her father, she became a leader in the Awami League , the largest historical party in the country founded in 1949 by Rahman, Suhrawardy and their father. In addition to becoming secretary for women's affairs, she also became a member of the party's foreign affairs subcommittee. At the same time, she played a key role in her party's election programs, which led to the Awami League, with Hasina Wajed , Rahman's daughter, providing prime minister between 1996 and 2001. She also influenced the fact that the party resumed parliamentary work in October 2006 after a boycott of several years .

She has been a member of the National Assembly ( Jatiya Sangsad ) since 2006 and, alongside the chairman of the Awami League, Hasina Wajed, as general secretary, the leading figure of the party. After the victory of the Awami League in the parliamentary elections on December 30, 2008, Prime Minister Wajed appointed her Foreign Minister on January 6, 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Former Ministers. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, accessed May 30, 2014 .
  2. ↑ rulers.org: January 5, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Moni, Dipu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh (since 2009)
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dhaka