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Dr. Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury

Education and Cultural Affairs adviser of Prime Minister

Profile
Dr. Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury is currently working as the Principal Secretary to the Honourable Prime Minister. He has over 33 years of experience as a civil servant and previously worked as Secretary/ Senior Secretary to the Ministry of Public Administration, Ministry of Information and the Ministry of Education, presently, he is representing Bangladesh at the UNESCO Executive Board for the term 2014-2017. He is also the chairman of the Committee on Conventions and Recommendations of the UNESCO Executive Board. Apart from being one of the top bureaucrats of the country, he is also a leading poet of Bangladesh. So far, he has published a total of 18 books – mostly works of poetry. He has won the highest literary award of the country – Bangla Academy Award for Literature (poetry) in 2011. Furthermore, he is a noted anthropologist and a reputed cultural personality of Bangladesh. He was born on 31 December 1957 in the district of Comilla . He is married and blessed with two children.

EDUCATION
  • PhD (Anthropology), University of Dhaka, 2006.
  • MSS (Sociology), University of Dhaka, 1979
  • BSS (Honours: Sociology), University of Dhaka, 1978
Career
In 1982, Kamal Chowdhury took up the job as a member of the Bangladesh Civil Service.
After serving jobs in different positions in 2010, he was promoted as Secretary of the Government of Bangladesh. While being additional secretary of the Ministry of Information (Bangladesh), he was appointed as Acting Secretary of the same ministry. Afterwards, he served as Secretary of Information for some time.
From 2010 to 2014 he was the Secretary of Ministry of Education. After that, he served as the Secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration from March 2014. At this time, he was promoted as the Senior Secretary of the Government. After retiring from work in late 2016, he was appointed as the Principal Secretary of Prime Minister of Bangladesh.He also represented Bangladesh at the UNESCO Executive Board for the term 2014–2017.
On 22 January 2022, Chowdhury was awarded the Ekushey Padak, the second most important award for civilians in Bangladesh.
On 11 January 2024, he was inducted as an advisor of Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in the rank and status of a cabinet minister.