The government has decided to appoint Tarik Ahsan, currently serving as the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Pakistan, as the next ambassador to Portugal, a foreign ministry release said today.

Tarik Ahsan is a career foreign service officer belonging to the 9th batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) Foreign Affairs Cadre.

In his diplomatic career, Ambassador Ahsan served in various capacities in Bangladesh missions in Riyadh, Jakarta, Berlin and Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the UN in New York.

He also served as the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka. At the foreign ministry in Dhaka, he headed different directorates and wings, notably Europe directorate and International Organisations Wing.

Ambassador Ahsan obtained his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

He secured a post-graduate diploma in International Relations and Development from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at the Hague in the Netherlands.

Apart from attending different training courses in Bangladesh as a civil servant, he also received training at UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in New York and Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore.

He was a news presenter of the Bangladesh Television from 1991 to 1996.