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Tariq Ahmed Karim is a Bangladeshi diplomat and former ambassador to the United States and the former High Commissioner to India. He also served as Chairman of
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) is a state owned autonomous national research institute and think tank working as a statutory institute that carries out research on security and strategic issues in Bangladesh ...
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Education

Karim completed his secondary education at St. Gregory's High School and College in 1960 and higher secondary from Notre Dame College, Dhaka in 1962. Later he completed his graduation in 1965 from the University of Dhaka and started his career. Later he received post-graduate degree from
University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...
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Career

Karim joined the Pakistan Foreign Service in 1967. From 1995 to 1997, Karim was the Additional Foreign Secretary and was responsible for South Asian region at the ministry. He was the lead Bangladeshi negotiator over the
sharing the water of the Ganges A long-standing dispute exists between India and Bangladesh over the appropriate allocation, and development, of the water resources of the Ganges River, which flows from northern India into Bangladesh. The issue had remained a subject of confl ...
and successfully signed a 30-year treaty in 1996. Karim was the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to South Africa. He also represented Bangladesh in Botswana, Lesotho, and Namibia concurrently. In 2001, Karim was the ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States. In July 2009, Karim was appointed the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Karim is the director of Centre for Bay of Bengal Studies based in the Independent University, Bangladesh. In January 2021, he joined the Cosmos Foundation, a trustee of Cosmos Group, as an advisor.


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