The government has appointed Noor-E Helal Saifur Rahman currently serving as Deputy High Commissioner in Karachi as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to South Africa.
Rahman is a career foreign service officer belonging to the 15th batch of BCS Foreign Affairs cadre.
In his diplomatic career, he served in various capacities in Bangladesh missions in Islamabad, Paris, Singapore and Kuwait.
At the headquarters, he worked in various capacities in different wings including Director General (Africa) as well as Director General (External Publicity).
He studied Bangla Language and Literature at the Dhaka University and obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.
He attended the ‘International Management Program’ in the MIT, United States and also completed the National Defense Course (NDC) in Bangladesh in 2013.
