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October 2024
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Bangladesh: What’s Next?

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Bangladesh: What’s Next?

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October 01, 2024
Anti-Discrimination Student Movement holds a rally to mark one month since the ousting of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on September 5, 2024. (Rehman Asad/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Anti-Discrimination Student Movement holds a rally to mark one month since the ousting of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on September 5, 2024. (Rehman Asad/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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October 2024
Past Event

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Speakers:
aparna_pande
Aparna Pande

Research Fellow, India and South Asia

Former Foreign Secretary of India and Former Ambassador of India to the United States, Bangladesh, and Thailand
Ambassador Harshvardhan Shringla

Former Foreign Secretary of India and Former Ambassador of India to the United States, Bangladesh, and Thailand

Former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh and Former Ambassador of Bangladesh to India, China, Malaysia, and the United Nations
Ambassador Farooq Sobhan

Former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh and Former Ambassador of Bangladesh to India, China, Malaysia, and the United Nations

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Indian Politics, Georgetown University
Professor Irfan Nooruddin

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Indian Politics, Georgetown University

Bangladesh, a South Asian country of 175 million people with a gross domestic product of $460 billion, is strategically important for the United States. The US is the largest foreign investor in Bangladesh, and the country is part of the US-led Indo-Pacific strategy.

In June 2024, five months after Bangladesh held its general elections, the country was engulfed in mass protests and upheaval. After weeks of street protests and violence, then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid stepped down and left the country, and the army helped install an interim government of technocrats led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Join Hudson for a conversation on developments in Bangladesh and their importance to US interests with former Foreign Secretary of India Harshvardhan Shringla, former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh Farooq Sobhan, and Georgetown University Professor of Indian Politics Irfan Nooruddin. Dr. Aparna Pande will moderate the conversation.

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