Shahabuddin Ahmed

Shahabuddin Ahmed is a Bangladeshi civil servant. He is a former ambassador of Bangladesh to Japan and a former secretary of the Ministry of Food.

Early life Ahmed was born in 1960 in Bhola District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. He did his bachelor's degree and master's in soil sciences from the University of Dhaka in 1981 and 1982 respectively. He has a second master's in development finance from the University of Birmingham.

Ahmed was appointed the acting secretary of the Ministry of Food in December 2017 from the Ministry of Finance. From December 2017 to December 2019, Ahmed was the secretary of the Ministry of Food. In April 2019, he visited Harvard University to attend a Leadership in Crises executive program paid for by a project for a capacity building for civil servants. He took his family with him whose expenses were paid by him. He replaced Ambassador Rabab Fatima who was appointed the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. He has urged Japan to recruit more workers from Bangladesh. He was terminated after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government.