Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi career diplomat and former government minister. He is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in the National University of Singapore. Chowdhury served as a member of the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh during the 2007-2008 Emergency. He was in charge of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Expatriate Welfare and Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs.