Shah Ahmed Shafi has been named as new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to South Africa.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced his new appointment on Thursday. 

Shafi, a career diplomat belonging to the 17th batch of BCS (Foreign Affairs) cadre, joined Bangladesh Foreign Service in 1998.

Currently, he is serving as an Additional Foreign Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dhaka; responsible for the bilateral affairs related to the East European countries and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). 

Prior to that, he served at the Foreign Service Academy, Dhaka as Director General. Earlier he also served at the National Defence College, Dhaka as a Senior Directing Staff (Foreign Affairs)/ Faculty. In his diplomatic career, he served in different capacities in Bangladesh Missions in Nairobi, Los Angeles, Paris and New Delhi. 

He also served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing.  
   
Ambassador-designate Shafi holds a Master’s degree in Sociology from the Dhaka University. 

He did another Master’s in International Relations from the International Institute of Public Administrtation (IIAP), Paris.

Later in 2016, he completed NDC course (Master’s in Security and Strategic Studies) from Bangladesh National Defence College. He took part in several other professional training courses both at home and abroad, and represented Bangladesh in numerous international meetings and negotiations. 

He is fluent in English and French while Bengali is his native language.