A. N. M. Muniruzzaman (general)

Muniruzzaman graduated from the National University, Bangladesh and National Defence College.^[5] He studied at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College, and the Naval War College.^[5]

Muniruzzaman was stuck in West Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and was repatriated after the Independence of Bangladesh.^[6] He received his commission in the artillery regiment.^[5]

Muniruzzaman was the military advisor to the President of Bangladesh.^[7] He had served in the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia as the chief military liaison officer.^[7][8]

In 1999, Muniruzzaman worked for the establishment of Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations Training.^[5]

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.^[5][6]

Muniruzzaman established Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies in 2007.^[9][5] He jointly organized a round table in 2009 in Singapore with Institute of South Asian Studies.^[10] In 2013, he testified in front of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs about Bangladesh.^[5] He raised concerns about increasing militant attacks on minorities in 2015 and had warned of prison radicalization.^[11][12] He has called for maintaining strategic ambiguity of Bangladesh when it comes to foreign relations.^[13]

On 22 January 2023, Muniruzzaman was elected Chairman of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change.^[14] He had spoken in front of the UN Security Council on climate change.^[15] In February 2024, he called for the fortification of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.^[16] After the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina he called on India to engage will political parties in Bangladesh.^[17]