Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed

Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed (16 January 1932 – 12 July 2003) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist. He was a former attorney general of Bangladesh. He served as an adviser on law to the non-party caretaker government in two successive terms. He had four elder brothers and one younger one. He got his elementary education in Ramanath High English School in Hili, Dakshin Dinajpur where his father, Syed Zafar Ahmed, had a business.

Ahmed passed the matriculation and intermediate exam from Mymensingh Zilla School in 1948 and Dhaka College in 1950 respectively. He completed his bachelor's and master's in economics at the University of Dhaka in 1953 and 1954 respectively.

Career Ahmed joined The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn and became a barrister in 1958. He then taught in a higher secondary school in London until he returned to Bangladesh in 1960.

Ahmed was the president of the Rotary Club of Dhaka North, life member of the Bangla Academy, the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Itihas Parisad, the board of trustees of Centre for Policy Dialogue. Together they had one son Syed Refaat Ahmed, who became the 25th Chief Justice of Bangladesh, and a daughter, Tasneem Raina Fateh, a physician.

On 18 July 2004, Sufia established a trust fund titled "Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Memorial Foundation" at the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.