Mr. Md. Mahbub Hossain, Cabinet Secretary, Cabinet Division, is a highly accomplished and professional civil servant with 34 years of experience in various fields. Before joining here, he served as Senior Secretary, Energy and Mineral Resources Division from 02 January 2022 to 02 January 2023; and also as Secretary, Secondary and Higher Education Division from 31 December, 2019 to 1 January, 2022. He, a member of B.C.S. (Administration) of 1986 (8th) batch, joined in Bangladesh Civil Service on 20 December 1989.Mr. Md. Mahbub Hossain was born on 14 October 1964 in Barisal district. He completed his Master’s Degree from the Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka. 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 Griffith University, Australia. He actively participated in various training courses on Planning, Development, Management and Gender at home and abroad.Mr. Md. Mahbub Hossain served 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, 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. Md. Mahbub 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 improving of urban governance. He trains as a senior trainer and resource person in various training institutions. He has keen interest in research and contributed to conducting and editing several research programs and reports. Mr. Md. Mahbub 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 organizations, he practices literature, especially writing short stories and poems.