Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

Anwarul Karim Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi diplomat most noted for his work on development in the poorest nations, global peace and championing the rights of women and children. In a speech he gave in 2005, Chowdhury stated: "We should not forget that when women are marginalized, there is little chance for an open and participatory society."

In his role as the leading United Nations Culture of Peace emissary, he said in May 2010 that peace efforts would continually fail until people embraced humanity's oneness.

Chowdhury was born in 1943 in Dhaka, British India and joined the diplomatic service in 1967. He has been a regular contributor to journals on peace, development and human rights issues, and a speaker at academic institutions and other forums.