Muhammad Hasan Mahmud (born 5 June 1963) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician who is the incumbent Member of Parliament from Chittagong-7 constituency.^[1] In January 2019, he appointed as the Bangladesh Minister of Information.^[2] Currently he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs Bangladesh. He is also a Joint Secretary of the Bangladesh Awami League.

Muhammad Hasan Mahmud was born on 5 June 1963 in Chittagong. He completed his bachelor's and master's in chemistry from the University of Chittagong in 1987 and 1989 respectively.^[3] He completed a second masters from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in environmental science in 1996.^[4] He earned his PhD in environmental chemistry from Transnational University Limburg in 2001.^[4]

In 1977, Mahmud joined Bangladesh Chhatra League.^[4] And in 1988 he became the President of Bangladesh chhatra league,Chittagong University unit

During 1996–2001, Mahmud served as the political and parliamentary affairs adviser to then prime minister Sheikh Hasina.^[5] In 2001, he was appointed special assistant to then opposition leader of parliament, Sheikh Hasina.^[4] He was appointed the Secretary of Environment and Forest affair of Awami League.^[4]

Mahmud was the Jatiya Sangsad member from Chittagong-6 constituency during 2008–2014.^[6] He had received 101,340 votes while his nearest rival of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, received 72,073 votes.^[7]

Mahmud was appointed as the state minister for foreign affairs in January 2009 in Sheikh Hasina's cabinet but 6 months later he was moved to the position of state minister for environment and forests.^[8][9][10] In November 2011, he was promoted to the full minister of environment and forest and served the position until the end of 2013.^[5][11]

Mahmud was elected to parliament from Chittagong-7 in 2014 as a candidate of Awami League in an uncontested election.^[12] In the election 50 percent of the seats were won without a vote as the main opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led alliance boycotted the election.^[13]

Mahmud was re-elected to parliament from Chittagong-7 in 2018 as a candidate of Awami League.^[14] He had received 217,155 votes while his nearest rival from Liberal Democratic Party, Md Nurul Alam, received 6,065 votes.^[14]

In September 2022, Mahmud was nominated to the Awami League Local Government Public Representative Nomination Board.^[15] Secretary Md Mokbul Hossain at the Information Ministry under Mahmud was sent to forced retirement in October.^[16][17]

Mahmud is married to Nuran Fatema Hasan.^[11]