A career diplomat, Ambassador Rahman has been with the Government for long 36 years when he retired in May 2007.

Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and educated in Dhaka University he did his Honours and later Masters in Economics He was a Chancellor Gold Medallist in 1967.

He competed in the Civil Service Examination of Pakistan and entered the erstwhile Service in 1970. Till 1978 he was posted in various important Ministries including assignments in the Prime Ministers Office and in various districts of Bangladesh.

From 1978, his foreign assignments began and he was posted as a senior diplomat in Bangladesh missions including London, Tehran, Stockholm, Moscow, When he was posted at Headquarters at Dhaka he headed the Directorate of Personnel, and UN and later the Directorate General of SAARC, International Organizations, South Asia, etc.

From 1996, he headed the Bangladesh missions in Singapore as High Commissioner till 2001. Then he was made Bangladesh Ambassador to Germany till 2003. In that year he was assigned as Bangladesh Ambassador to China where he remained till May 2007. In each of these Ambassadorial appointments, he was concurrently accredited to other countries too, which included Brunei from Singapore; Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia and Slovania from Germany and finally North Korea and Mongolia from China.

Ambassador Rahman has participated in important negotiations on behalf of his country and represented in numerous international conferences in the UN, the Commonwealth, the Non-Aligned Summit, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the South Asia Association of Regional Co-operation, etc.

He is married and has two daughters.