Ameerah Haq

Ameerah Haq
Haq in 2011
Born	Sylhet, Bangladesh
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	Western College for Women Columbia University New York University

Ameerah Haq is a Bangladeshi technocrat who served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for the Department of Field Support, the highest-ranking Bangladeshi official at the United Nations, from April 2012 until her resignation in July 2014.^[1] Subsequently, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed her as one of the co-chairs of the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations.^[2] Haq also served as the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Timor-Leste and Head of the United Nations Integrated Mission in East Timor (UNMIT). Haq joined the UN in 1976.

In 2015, Haq was appointed as a member of the board^[3] of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD), a private diplomacy organization whose mission is to help mitigate armed violence through dialogue and mediation.^{[citation needed]}