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Shahed Akhter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ136849437 ↗
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Shahed Akhter is a former Bangladeshi diplomat. He served as an ambassador of Bangladesh to Thailand and Spain.

Career

Akhter served as Ambassador to Spain, Thailand, and Cambodia, Permanent Representative to UN-ESCAP and WTO, Deputy High Commissioner in the UK and Malaysia, and held other positions in New York, Bangkok, London, Spain, and Kuala Lumpur.

Before retirement, Akhter served as a principal of the Bangladesh Foreign Service Academy during 2008-2009.

Akhter was part of the international observer group for Ghana’s 2013 elections.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shahed Akhter” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.