Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey

Mushfiqul Fazal Ansarey is Bangladesh Ambassador to United Mexican State with concurrent accreditation to Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador and Costa Rica. He was appointed by the head of Bangladesh’s Interim Government, Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus with the status of Senior Secretary. A former Washington, D.C.-based journalist, Ansarey gained recognition for his incisive questions during UN and U.S. State Department briefings about Bangladesh. He served as the Executive Editor of South Asia Perspectives,  Editor for JustNewsBD and extensively covered White House, the UN, U.S. State Department, and Pentagon. He was also the founding Executive Director of Right to Freedom (R2F), a nonprofit dedicated to human rights and press freedom. Additionally, he served as a Guest Host at the Wilson Center and worked for The Times and The Sunday Times in the UK as a Work Experience Reporter for the Foreign Desk. He also worked as a consultant for the World Bank Group.