John Gomes

John Gomes is a retired two-star rank Bangladesh Army officer and diplomat. He served as the ambassador of Bangladesh to the Philippines.

Early life Gomes was born to a Bengali Christian family of Armanitola, then in East Pakistan, Pakistan (now in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh). Gomes later served as second in command of an East Bengal Regiment and soon transferred to Tajikistan to serve as operation manager in the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan. He is the general secretary of the Notre Dame College Alumni Association. As ambassador, he was tasked with returning US$81 million that was smuggled to Philippines after the Bangladesh Bank robbery in 2016. In November 2016, the government of Bangladesh appointed Asad Alam Siam to replace him as the ambassador to the Philippines.