Anwara Begum

Anwara Begum (1934/1935 – 21 April 2018) was a Bangladeshi academic. In 2006, she was awarded the Ekushey Padak by the government of Bangladesh for her contribution to education. She was married to the 14th President of Bangladesh, Iajuddin Ahmed, and served as the First Lady of Bangladesh from 2002 until 2009.

Career Begum was a professor at the Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka. She later served as the chairman of the Department of Zoology and the provost of the Shamsun Nahar Hall. of Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology, a private university in Dhaka.

Personal life Begum and her husband, Iajuddin Ahmed, had a son, Imtiaz Ahmed Babu.