Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.
Humayun KABIR
President and CEO of Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI)
President and CEO of Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI); former Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States
Ambassador Humayun Kabir (Retd.) is an education enthusiast and a civil society activist in Bangladesh. Since his retirement from the diplomatic service in 2010, he has dedicated himself to teaching and research, policy advocacy and mobilizing the citizens on various issues of public interest. As the President and CEO of Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI), a prime Think Tank in Dhaka, Ambassador Kabir is actively engaged in extending policy support, conducting research and carrying out advocacy on issues related to foreign policy and security in South Asia, governance in Bangladesh and economic partnership in the region and beyond, among others.
In addition, he regularly teaches courses at various universities, and specialized training institutions in Bangladesh, both in civil and military side of the aisle, on issues like diplomacy and strategic developments in South Asia, conflict and conflict resolution, including negotiations, and geo political transformations in the Indo-Pacific region, among others. He also helps them in developing course curriculum on those areas.
An education enthusiast, he also sits at the Advisory Board of the Asian University for Women in Chottogram, Bangladesh and the University of People in California, USA. He is also a member of Board of Governors of the Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management (BIGM). He also advises several UN agencies and international business consultancies.
During his long diplomatic career, he served as Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States (2007-09), Nepal (2003-06), and High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand (2006-7). He also served as Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata (1999-2001), in addition to serving in Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York, and leading several wings in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka.
He regularly writes and speaks on issues related to the changing dimensions of diplomacy, regional and strategic shifts and Bangladesh in the changing regional and global context.
He has a Master’s degree in Political Science and Bachelor of Law degree from the Dhaka University, and DESS degree from the University of Paris-XI. He also studied at the St. Johns University in New York, and at the Academy of International Law at The Hague.