Dipu Moni

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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician and the Education Minister of Bangladesh}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable#Bangladesh|Honorable Minister]]
| name = Dipu Moni
| native_name = দীপু মনি
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Dipu Moni February 2013 (8510153398).jpg
| caption = Moni in 2013 in [[Vienna]], Austria
| office = [[Minister of Education (Bangladesh)|Minister of Education]]
| 1blankname = Deputy
| 1namedata = [[Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury]]
| primeminister = [[Sheikh Hasina]]
| term_start = 7 January 2019
| predecessor = [[Nurul Islam Nahid]]
| office2 = [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
| primeminister2 = [[Sheikh Hasina]]
| term_start2 = 30 January 2009
| term_end2 = 20 November 2013
| predecessor2 = [[Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury]]
| successor2 = [[Abul Hassan Mahmud Ali]]
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)|Member of Parliament]]
| term_start1 = 6 January 2010
| constituency1 = [[Chandpur-3]]
| predecessor1 = [[G. M. Fazlul Haque]]
| party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|12|08|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Chandpur District|Chandpur]], Bangladesh
| profession = Politician, medical doctor, lawyer
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[Holy Cross College (Dhaka)|Holy Cross College]]|[[Dhaka Medical College]]|[[National University, Bangladesh|National University]]|[[Johns Hopkins University]]|[[University of London]]}}
| father = [[MA Wadud]]
| mother = Rahima Wadud
| spouse = [[Tawfique Nawaz]]
}}

'''Dipu Moni''' (born 8 December 1965)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/bn/mps-bangla/members-of-parliament-bangla/current-mps-bangla/2014-03-23-11-44-22?layout=edit&id=2326|title=Constituency 262_10th_Bn|publisher=|accessdate=26 October 2022}}</ref> is a Bangladeshi politician, and has been the [[Ministry of Education (Bangladesh)|Minister of Education of Bangladesh]] since January 2019 and a [[Jatiya Sangsad|Member of Parliament]] representing the [[Chandpur-3]] constituency.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2019/01/06/new-faces-crowd-cabinet-of-47-members|title=New faces crowd cabinet of 47 members|publisher=|accessdate=7 January 2022}}</ref> She was [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Foreign Minister of Bangladesh]] from 2009 to 2013. She was appointed the first female [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bangladesh)|Foreign Minister]] on 6 January 2009 after victory for the Awami League-led Grand Alliance on 29 December 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thedailystar.net/city/dipu-moni-new-chairperson-auw-784858|title = Dipu Moni new chairperson of AUW|website = The Daily Star|date = 2 March 2016|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref>

==Early life==
Moni is a daughter of [[MA Wadud]] who was a founding member of the [[Bangladesh Awami League]] and known especially for his role in the [[Bengali language movement|Language Movement]] and as the first Council-elected General Secretary of the East Pakistan Chhatra League. Moni passed HSC from [[Holy Cross College, Dhaka]].

Moni studied [[MBBS]] at [[Dhaka Medical College and Hospital]] and [[LLB]] at [[Bangladesh National University]]. She later earned Master of Public Health at [[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health|Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health]], and earned [[Master of Laws]] at the [[University of London]] as an external student.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2010/spring/departments/public_health_travels_in_south_asia/|title = Public Health Travels in South Asia - Departments - Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine|last = Smith|first = Mike|website = magazine.jhsph.edu|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://opinion.bdnews24.com/dipu-moni/|title = Dipu Moni|website = The Opinion Pages|date = 25 July 2011|publisher=bdnews24.com|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref> She had completed a course on Negotiations and Conflict Resolutions from [[Harvard University]]. She is a lawyer of [[Bangladesh Supreme Court]].

==Political career==
[[File:Hillarydipumoni.jpg|thumb|left|Moni with [[Hillary Clinton]]]]
[[File:Secretary Kerry Meets With Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Moni (2).jpg|thumb|258x258px|[[John Kerry]] meets with Moni]]
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.
She represented [[Chandpur-3|Chandpur‐3]] as a Member of Bangladesh Parliament. 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 (Bangladesh)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] she has represented her government's position to the Cabinet Ministers and public representatives of Asia, Europe and the US, Ambassadors and Senior Representatives of International Institutions. As the foreign minister she sought an apology for the [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|1971 Bangladesh Genocide]] from Pakistan.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.firstpost.com/world/dipu-moni-seeks-pak-apology-for-1971-khar-prefers-moving-on-520585.html|title = Dipu Moni seeks Pak apology for 1971, Khar prefers moving on |website = Firstpost|date = 9 November 2012 |language = en-US|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref> She also tried to bring the absconding killers of president [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|Sheikh Mujib]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/one-killer-safe-us-political-asylum-127141|title = One killer safe in US with political asylum|website = The Daily Star|date = 15 August 2015|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref> She is the present [[Awami League]] Joint General Secretary.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2016/03/22/22546|title = Dipu Moni: BNP has restored to falsehood|website = The Financial Express |location=Dhaka |access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref> She was elected chairman of [[Asian University for Women]] in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/96677/Dipu-Moni-elected-AUW-chairman|title = Dipu Moni elected AUW chairman|website = Prothom Alo|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref> She is the chairperson of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/07/10/bangladesh-crucial-to-india-s-northeast-dipu-moni|title = Bangladesh crucial to India's Northeast: Dipu Moni|website = bdnews24.com|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref>

==Criticisms==
As the 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clickittefaq.com/in-the-news/dipu-moni-slammed-over-foreign-trips/|title=Dipu Moni slammed over foreign trips|publisher=|accessdate=26 October 2022}}</ref><ref>[http://www.theindependentbd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178685:dipu-monis-foreign-trips-galore&catid=129:frontpage&Itemid=121 Dipu Moni's foreign trips galore]</ref><ref name=autogenerated3>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/dipu-moni-blasts-media-reports/|title=Dipu Moni blasts media reports|date=22 July 2013|work=The Daily Star|accessdate=26 October 2022}}</ref> 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.<ref name=autogenerated3 />

== Personal life ==
Moni is married to [[Tawfique Nawaz]],<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.thedailystar.net/hc-summons-dipu-moni-s-husband-21273|title = HC summons Dipu Moni's husband|website = The Daily Star|date = 23 April 2014|access-date = 2016-04-12}}</ref> an Oxbridge educated senior advocate of the Bangladesh Supreme court.

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[[Category:21st-century Bangladeshi women politicians]]

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