Background
Moni is a daughter of Master of Arts
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Dipu Moni
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She studied Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital and Bachelor of Laws at Bangladesh National University. She later studied at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and at the University of London.
Career
She was appointed the first female Foreign Minister on 6 January 2009 after a landslide victory for the Awami League-led Grand Alliance on 29 December 2008. Dipu Moni passed Higher School Certificate from Holy Cross College, Dhaka. She worked for women"s rights and entitlements, health legislation, health policy and management, health financing, strategic planning, and health and human rights under the Constitution and law in Bangladesh"s economic and social development programmes and foreign policy issues of the region and globally.As a Minister of Foreign Affairs she has represented her party"s position to the Cabinet Ministers and public representatives of Asia, Europe and the United States of America, Ambassadors and Senior Representatives of International Institutions.
She writes, teaches, consults, researches, conducts advocacy programmes, organizes and leads health service clinics, promotes legislation on key issues.
As Minister of Foreign Affairs Moni was widely criticized by different news media because of her frequent overseas visits. According to some news reports, she made 187 foreign trips and 600 days of overseas stay in four and a half years.
In response, Moni said she went abroad every time with the consent of the prime minister, who gave her approval after studying the pros and cons of every visit. She made 114 foreign tours, including 36 with the president and the prime minister and claimed that the number of her bilateral visits was 62, not 17 as reported.
Politics
Wadud, who was a founding member of the Bangladesh Awami League. Moni was the Secretary for Women's Affairs and a Member of the Sub‐Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Bangladesh Awami League before her induction to the cabinet.
Membership
She represented Chandpur‐3 as a Member of Bangladesh Parliament.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Bangladesh Awami League