Farzana Sharmin

Sharmin began her legal career in 2008 as an advocate at the District Court of Bangladesh.^[7] In 2012, she was admitted to practice at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.^[7] She has built expertise in criminal litigation, judicial review, and constitutional law.^[7] She has worked as an associate at the legal firm 'Barrister Moudud Ahmed and Associates' and is currently a partner at RIGHTS Chambers.^[7] Additionally, she has served as a legal advisor to various banks, insurance companies, and private enterprises.^[7] She is a lawyer of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.^[8]

Sharmin is listed as an English-speaking lawyer with the British High Commission’s retained list in Dhaka.^[7] She is a member of several legal organizations, including the International Bar Association, the Society of the Middle Temple (England), the Asian Society of International Law (AsiaSIL), and the Dhaka Bar Association.^[7]

Sharmin is actively engaged in Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politics.^[7][9] She serves as a member of the special assistant to the BNP Chairperson’s Foreign Affairs Advisory Committee.^[7] Additionally, she contributes to BNP's Human Rights Committee and Media Cell Committee.^[7] In 2023, she was a director of Lysander Tech Limited, based in the United Kingdom.^[10]

After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government in August 2024, Sharmin was made a member of the Anti-Corruption Commission Reform Commission of the Muhammad Yunus led interim government.^[11] She has represented Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, general secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, in his challenge of the 15th amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh.^[12][4]

Sharmin won the 2026 Bangladeshi general election contesting at the Natore-1 constituency securing 102,726 votes while his nearest opponent Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Abul Kalam Azad got 90,568 votes.^[2]