[5] On 1 February 2022, she was elected the Chair of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).

[7] As the IOM's Regional Representative for South Asia, in 2011, she oversaw the return of nearly 37,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers from Libya to Bangladesh following the outbreak of conflict.

[8] She was also actively engaged with the successful implementation of reintegration programme for these migrant workers.

[10] Fatima was also appointed as co-facilitator along with the Permanent Representative of Slovenia to lead the intergovernmental consultation on the Alignment of the agendas of General Assembly and ECOSOC.

[6] Fatima is married to former Ambassador Kazi Imtiaz Hossain, who is the chairman of the Board of Governors of Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS).