Mahbub Uz Zaman

Mahbub has a master's in economics from the University of Dhaka.^[4]

Mahbub joined the Foreign Service cadre of the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1985.^[4][5] He had served in the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations and Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations in Vienna.^[2]

Mahbub was the director of administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[4] He was the director of Multilateral Economic Affairs.^[4] Mahbub had served in the High Commission of Bangladesh to Canada.^[6] He had served in the embassy of Bangladesh in Japan.^[7] He was the director general South Asia and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2006.^[8] He was the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka in November 2011.^[9][10]

Mahbub was appointed the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore in 2012.^[11] He replaced Kamrul Ahsan.^[11] He asked workers in Singapore to remain calm following the 2013 Little India riot.^[12] During his term the Zika virus spread to the expatriate Bangladeshi community in Singapore in 2016.^[13]

From 2016 to 2019, Mahbub was the secretary in charge of Asia and Pacific region at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.^[14][5] In August 2017, he met a representative of the government of Myanmar to discuss the influx of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.^[15]

On 21 August 2019, Mahbub was appointed the ambassador of Bangladesh to China for one year.^[14] His appointment was extended by one year in 2020.^[14] He was replaced by Md. Jashim Uddin in 2022.^[16]

In June 2022, Mahbub hosted the director general of the Department of Asian Affairs who called Bangladesh to reject "cold war mentality" of the United States.^[14][17]