Nazmul Quaunine

Md. Nazmul Quaunine is a Bangladeshi diplomat and former High Commissioner of Bangladesh to the United Kingdom. He is former ambassador of Bangladesh to the United Arab Emirates.

Early life Quaunine completed his medical degree at the Dhaka Medical College. He studied Diplomacy and International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Career Quaunine joined the foreign service through the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1985. Under him, the United Arab Emirates stopped issuing all visas to Bangladeshis in October 2012. He was serving as the ambassador of Bangladesh to Indonesia. He was concurrently accredited as ambassador of Bangladesh to Cambodia. He was the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. In May 2020, he was elected chair of the 76th Commission of Session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.