Emran bin Bahar

Bahar was born on 9 August 1961.^[2] He completed his secondary education in Brunei before going abroad. Bahar graduated from Keele University with a B.A. in international relations and continued studies for his master's degree in international relations at the Australian National University in 1994; from which received his PhD in 1998.^[3]

In January 1986 he started working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an Administrative officer before he went to complete his studies, and was then, from June to December 1992, the Assistant Director of the Political Affairs Department in the ministry.^[4][2] He then worked variously as an administrative officer as a deputy director and director for multiple department before becoming the secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2002 to 2004.^[2] Afterward, from 2004 to 2006, he was the Ambassador of Brunei to Cambodia.^[2] He was then assigned as the ambassador to the United Nations (UN) from 2006 to 2008.^[5]

As of 2008, Emran was working as a Deputy Permanent Secretary 1 at the Ministry of Defence.^[6] On 9 April 2012, Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah granted permission for two recently appointed Brunei envoys, including Emran (Brunei Ambassador to Laos), to attend. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah gave each envoy their individual letters of credentials on 29 March.^[7] In addition to this, he was the director of Policy Planning Department in 2013.^[8]