Bangladeshi Ambassador visits Jacobs
The Ambassador of People's Republic of Bangladesh to Germany, His Excellency Mosud Mannan, recently paid a visit to Jacobs University, accompanied by Consul Honorary Consulate Dr. Ralph-Hillard Geuther.
September 12, 2011The guests were welcomed on campus by Dr. Thorsten Thiel, Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at Jacobs University and Ulf Hansen, Director of Resource Development at Jacobs. Before touring the campus, the ambassador and Dr. Geuther met with Jacobs students from Bangladesh.
The guests discussed opportunities for future collaboration between Jacobs University and Bangladesh, also with regards to the work of Jacobs University’s Research Center on 'Transformations in Europe and Asia: Markets, States, Societies’ (TEAMS).
The center aims to explore the changing state-market-society-nexus in two regions of the world that since the end of the Cold War have experienced rapid transformations: Europe and Asia. It investigates the changing relations between Asia and Europe from imperialism through the Cold War to current processes of globalization.
H.E. Ambassador Mosud Mannan was born on 21 April 1961. He studied Economics at the University of Dhaka and earned an M.A. Degree from Tufts University, USA. After joining his country’s foreign service, he held posts abroad in London, Muscat, and New York.
He served as Deputy Head of Protocol at the Foreign Ministry in Dhaka (1996-2000) and as Envoy to Beijing (2002-2005). In September 2008, he was named Ambassador of Bangladesh to Morocco. In 2010 he became Ambassador of Bangladesh to Germany.
As a scholar H.E. Ambassador Mannan published articles in well-reputed journals on Japan-Bangladesh Relations, Housing Problems in Dhaka, EU-Bangladesh Relations or the problems of Farakkah Dam.
