Mr. Md. Mahbub Hossain joined the Board of Omera Petroleum Limited on March 23, 2022 as a Nominee Director of MJL Bangladesh Limited. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Mr. Hossain has been serving as a Senior Secretary in the Energy and Mineral Resources Division since 02 January 2022. Before joining in this Division he served as Secretary, Secondary and Higher Education Division during 31 December 2019 to 01 January 2022.

Mr. Hossain, a member of B.C.S. (Administration) of 1986 (8th) batch, joined in civil service on 20 December 1989. In his long and illustrious career, he served&nbsp;in various Ministries and Divisions such as Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Science and Technology, Planning Commission, Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Local Government Division as Assistant Secretary, Senior Assistant Secretary, Deputy Secretary,&nbsp;Joint Secretary and Additional Secretary. In the process, he has acquired experience in planning, implementation and monitoring of public policy, strategy and development projects. In addition, he served as the Private Secretary to Prime Minister’s Secretary and State Minister for Planning, Instructor of National Academy for Planning and Development, Deputy Chief (Gender) of Health Economics Unit, Secretary of Dhaka South City Corporation and Director (Planning and Development) of Bangladesh Climate Change Trust.

As a member of Honorable Prime Minister’s delegation, Mr. Hossain participated in the Meeting of High-Level Panel on Water held in September 2016 at the United Nations, Water Conference held in Budapest, Hungary and One Planet Summit, 2017 held in Paris. In his career, he was a member of different Bangladesh Delegations for negotiating bilateral trade and cooperation. He also took part in international negotiations related to climate change and meetings of the Conference of Parties (COP) held in 2013 (Warshaw, Poland) and 2014 (Lima, Peru). Moreover, in the Local Government Division, he led a number of inter-ministerial committees and task forces for improving water and sanitation system, modernization of urban waste management, development of urban primary health care system, updating of road cutting policy and improvement of urban governance.

Mr. Hossain completed his S.S.C. from Barishal Residential Model College (presently Barishal Cadet College) in 1979, H.S.C. from Barishal B.M. College in 1981, B.S.S. (Honours) and M.S.S. in Sociology from the University of Dhaka in 1984 and 1985 respectively. After joining the civil service, he obtained MBA from the University of North London, United Kingdom in 2001 and M.A. (Gender and Development) from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2007. Besides, he completed certificate courses on Health Economics from the University of Dhaka and on Climate Change and Leadership from the Griffith University, Australia. He actively participated in various training courses on Planning, Development, Management and Gender at home and abroad.

He trains as a senior trainer and resource person in various training institutions. He has keen interest in research and contributed in conducting and editing several research programmes and reports.

Mr. Hossain is currently the Vice President of Dhaka University Sociology Alumni Association. He has played an important role in the establishment of Australia Alumni Association, Bangladesh as the Member- Secretary of its first Ad hoc Committee. Besides, being an active member of various alumni and social organisations, he practices literature, especially writing short stories and poems.

Mr. Hossain has come from an aristocratic family of Village-Patarchar of Muladi Upazila in Barishal. His father is late Md. Abdul Hakim Khan and mother is Begum Meherunnesa. In family life, he is happily married to Dina Haque and blessed with two sons.