Shah A M S Kibria

Shah A M S Kibria
শাহ এ এম এস কিবরিয়া
Minister of Finance
In office
23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded bySaifur Rahman
Succeeded bySaifur Rahman
Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)
In office
2001–2005
ConstituencyHabiganj-3
Executive Secretary of ESCAP
In office
1981–1992
Preceded byJ B P Maramis
Succeeded byRafeeuddin Ahmed
Foreign Secretary (Bangladesh)
In office
1978–1981
Preceded byTabarak Hussain
Succeeded byHumayun Rashid Choudhury
Personal details
Born(1931-05-01)1 May 1931
Sylhet, Assam, British India
Died27 January 2005(2005-01-27) (aged 73)
Habiganj, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
Alma materDhaka University
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
AwardsIndependence Day Award

Shah Abu Muhammad Shamsul Kibria (Bengali: শাহ্‌ আবু মুহাম্মদ শামসুল কিবরিয়া; 1 May 1931 – 27 January 2005), known as SAMS Kibria or Shams Kibria, was a Bangladeshi economist, diplomat and politician.[1]

Joining the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1954, Kibria served in a number of diplomatic missions for Pakistan. In 1971, at the height of the Bangladesh Liberation War, Kibria, an ethnic Bengali, dissociated himself from the Pakistani foreign service and declared allegiance to the Mujibnagar government. After the independence of Bangladesh, he served as the Director General of the Political Affairs department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh and twice as the foreign secretary of Bangladesh.[2] Between 1981 and 1992, Kibria was the Executive Secretary of UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).[3]

Kibria joined Bangladesh Awami League in 1992. He served as the Minister of Finance of the Bangladesh government led by Sheikh Hasina from 1996 to 2001. In the 2001 general election of Bangladesh, he was elected a member of the parliament from his constituency Habiganj-3.[2]

Kibria was assassinated on 27 January 2005 in a grenade attack in a public meeting in Habiganj, Sylhet.[4][5]

  1. ^ Hossain, Urmee (2012). "Kibria, Shah AMS". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Kibria, Shah AMS". Banglapedia. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Former Executive Secretaries of ESCAP". UN ESCAP. Archived from the original on 11 August 2007.
  4. ^ "Kibria, 4 AL men killed in grenade attacks". The Daily Star. 28 January 2005. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  5. ^ Khalil, Tasneem (27 January 2005). "Grenades kill Bangladesh lawmaker". CNN.