Anisul Islam Mahmud is currently Minister of Water Resources in the Cabinet of Bangladesh. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1985 to December 1990. He was educated at the University of Dhaka (BA Economics, 1969), Quaide Azam University in Karachi (MSc Economics) and the University of Essex (MA Economics, 1972). He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1975. He was a Lecturer of Economics at the University of Dhaka from 1969 to 1970, a Senior Research Associate in Economics at the University of East Anglia from 1972 to 1973, and Lecturer of Economics at the University of Hertfordshire from 1973 to 1977.