The government has appointed Nahida Sobhan, currently serving as the Director General of United Nations Wing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the new Ambassador of Bangladesh to Jordan. She is the first female Ambassador of Bangladesh to be posted in the Middle East region, the foreign ministry said.
Sobhan is a career foreign service officer, belonging to the 15th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Foreign Affairs cadre. In her career, she served in various capacities at Bangladesh Missions in Rome, Kolkata and Geneva. She studied English Literature from Dhaka University. She was trained in Public International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands and obtained Diploma in International Relations from the Institute of Public Administration of Paris in France. Apart from Bangla and English, she is fluent in French.
