Syed Muazzem Ali

Syed Muazzem Ali (18 July 1944 – 30 December 2019) was a Bangladeshi foreign service officer and career diplomat.

The family's ancestral home is Khandakar Bari in Uttarsur Village of Bahubal Upazila of Habiganj District.

[8] Ali was serving in the Pakistan Embassy in Washington D.C. when Bangladesh Liberation war started, and he defected to the Bangladeshi government in exile.

He would go on to serve as Bangladesh Ambassador to Bhutan, Iran, Lebanon, Turkmenistan, France, Syria, and Portugal.

He then served as the foreign secretary of Bangladesh, where he worked to facilitate duty free for exports of least developed country to Europe.