F. A. Shamim Ahmed

Ambassador F. A. Shamim Ahmed (Retd.) was appointed as an Independent Director of GSP Finance Company (Bangladesh) Limited in its 213th BOD meeting held on November 29, 2018. Mr. Ahmed was born in 1948. He earned Honours and Master’s degrees in Sociology from the University of Dhaka. A former career diplomat, Ambassador F. A. Shamim Ahmed has served in various capacities in the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry and Embassies abroad during his 33- year long tenure in the Foreign Service. His assignments have pertained mainly to South Asia and UN and multilateral matters. Before his retirement in May 2007 as Ambassador Grade A and Secretary to the government, Ambassador Shamim Ahmed served as the country’s High Commissioner to Pakistan for four years. Prior to that he was Bangladesh Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was, concurrently, Permanent Representative to the Organization for Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Ambassador Ahmed served as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 1997 – 2000. He was a member of the Bangladesh’s delegation to the Security Council in 2000 with the rank of Ambassador. He also served as Consul General in New York. His other diplomatic assignments were Deputy Chief of Mission in Islamabad; Deputy Chief of Mission in Rome with accreditation as Alternate Permanent Representative to the UN FAO, World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Second / First Secretary in Tokyo and second Secretary in Nairobi with accreditation to the Headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme. He attended a Foreign Service training programme in Canberra, Australia in 1976.