Shamsul Bari is the Chairman of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh and a former director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
[1] He is the vice chairman of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust.
[3] Bari served at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for 20 years.
[4] In 1985, he was the Chief of the General Legal Section of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
[7] In 2008, he was appointed the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia.