Mohammad Nazmul Hassan

Nazmul was commissioned in the Bangladesh Navy on 1 July 1986 in the naval artillery department of executive branch. He commanded four warships, one small patrol craft, the Chittagong naval area and the Bangladesh naval fleet. Nazmul was also the commandant of Bangladesh Naval Academy and director of naval aviation, naval operations, naval intelligence at Naval Headquarters^[4] and furthermore the SWADS. He was assigned to Maldives as high commissioner in 2020. During his tenure in high commission, Nazmul signed a bilateral agreement with Maldives' health minister Ahmed Naseem for the AstraZeneca vaccines, in which Bangladesh has received 201,600 vaccine doses as a gesture of goodwill.^[5] In response, medical team of the Bangladesh Armed Forces sent to Maldives to assist in the Maldives Government's vaccination programme. Nazmul also aided the medical team of the Bangladesh Army medical corps to assist the vaccination program during COVID-19^[6] situation of the government of Maldives, the same year he also orchestrated the centenary Birthday of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's ceremony and the first bilateral visit of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.^[7][8] Nazmul left the high commission in order to return to naval headquarters and was succeeded by rear admiral Azad on January 2022.^[9][10] He was appointed assistant chief of naval staff in January 2023 and on July same year, he was ameliorated to vice admiral and appointed the chief of naval staff succeeding Shaheen Iqbal. He was promoted to admiral on September 2023.

As commander Chittagong naval area, Nazmul continued the process of rehabilitation of forcibly displaced Burmese citizens in Bhasan Char.^[11] Moreover, he made a special contribution to the rehabilitation of homeless poor people in remote coastal areas by implementing shelter projects during the fourth Hasina ministry.