Fazle Elahi Akbar

Fazle Elahi Akbar (born 6 November 1952) is a former major general of the Bangladesh Army who served as military adviser to the UN Advance Mission in the Sudan (UNAMIS). He served as the force commander in UNMIS from 2004 to 2006. He also served as director of military operations.

After military

Akbar is a director of Social Islami Bank Limited. He retired from the Bangladesh Army in 2006 following a lobbying effort against him by General Moeen U Ahmed. On 21 October 2008, he joined as the security affairs adviser to Begum Khaleda Zia, former prime minister of Bangladesh, a position he still holds to date.

He is the chairman of "Foundation for Strategic and Development Studies", or FSDS, a think tank that carries out research on the state's good governance, national security, development, and policy making.