Bangladeshi Immigrants to the United States - M. Osman Siddique, Mir Masoom Ali, Abuhena Saifulislam, Kali S. Banerjee (Paperback)

Chapters: M. Osman Siddique, Mir Masoom Ali, Abuhena Saifulislam, Kali S. Banerjee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: M. Osman Siddique is an American politician and former diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji and to the Republic of Nauru, to the Kingdom of Tonga and to Tuvalu from 1999-2001. He was the US Ambassador during the 2000 Fijian coup d'tat. Siddique is believed to be the second American-Muslim to be appointed as an ambassador from the United States; the first was Robert Dickson Crane, appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981 as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Siddique was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1950. He is the sixth child of a nine-child family. He attended various schools including Holy Cross, Shaheen and St Gregory's High School. He later attended Notre Dame College and Dhaka University. In 1972, Siddique was admitted to the Graduate School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana where he received his M.B.A. in 1974. Siddique married Catherine Mary Siddique and they have four children, Omar, Julene, Leila and Zack. His eldest son Omar works for the United Nations Development Program. In 1976 he formed ITI/Travelogue, Inc., a corporate travel management company, which became "one of the top minority-owned businesses in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area and one of the largest travel management companies in the nation." He served as its President and Chief Executive Officer before entering public service. He was also a founding member of CorpNet International, "a consortium of domestic and international travel management companies, with revenues in excess of $1.5 billion." He also co-founded other ventures in banking, real estate and international tr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8788182