A career diplomat, Quayes has been serving as the foreign secretary since July 8, 2009.
He also served as the Bangladesh high commissioner to the Republic of Maldives and the ambassador to the Russian Federation during his diplomatic career.
The foreign secretary was concurrently accredited as ambassador to Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine.
He has also served in various diplomatic capacities at Bangladesh Missions in Tokyo, Geneva and Singapore. At Headquarters, he has headed several desks as director general, including Saarc, South-east Asia, Economic Affairs, External Publicity and UNCLOS.
Quayes obtained bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts from Dhaka University and Master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School of Government (USA). At the Kennedy School, he was an Edward S Mason Fellow in Public Policy and Management.
Quayes has represented Bangladesh in numerous regional, international and UN meetings and conferences. He has also been actively involved in the drafting of several human rights related global instruments.
He has recently been elected as a member of the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) and has previously served as an expert member on the former UN Human Rights Commission’s Working Group on Migrants and Human Rights.
Quayes is a distinguished man of letters with cross-disciplinary interests. He is an avid connoisseur of the arts, and writes and speaks on the visual arts, theatre and film, as well as on aesthetics.
He is a Life Member of the UN Association of Bangladesh and the Bangla Academy. Quayes is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (World Literature Centre) and a close associate of Magsaysay Award winning academic Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed.
He is married to Naeema C Quayes, and has two daughters.
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