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A N M Muniruzzaman
Allegiance Pakistan (before 1972)
 Bangladesh
Service / branch Pakistan Army
 Bangladesh Army
Years of service1969 - 2006
Rank Major General
UnitRegiment of Artillery
Commands
Battles / warsUNTAC
Awards Independence Day Award

Abdullah Nurul Muhammad Muniruzzaman is a retired major general of Bangladesh Army, and president of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace & Security Studies. He is the chairperson of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change. He was the Director General of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies.

Early life and education

Muniruzzaman graduated from the National University, Bangladesh and National Defence College. He studied at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College, and the Naval War College.

Career

Muniruzzaman was stuck in West Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and was repatriated after the Independence of Bangladesh. He received his commission in the artillery regiment.

Muniruzzaman was the military advisor to the President of Bangladesh. He had served in the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia as the chief military liaison officer.

In 1999, Muniruzzaman worked for the establishment of Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations Training.

Muniruzzaman was appointed the Director General of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies in 2005 to clear the path for Major General Moeen U Ahmed to become the next chief of Army Staff.

Muniruzzaman established Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in 2007. He jointly organized a round table in 2009 in Singapore with Institute of South Asian Studies. In 2013, he testified in front of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs about Bangladesh. He raised concerns about increasing militant attacks on minorities in 2015 and had warned of prison radicalization. He has called for maintaining strategic ambiguity of Bangladesh when it comes to foreign relations.

On 22 January 2023, Muniruzzaman was elected Chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change. He had spoke in front of the UN Security Council on climate change. In February 2024, he called for the fortification of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border. After the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina he called on India to engage will political parties in Bangladesh.

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