Saber Hossain Chowdhury is a MP from Bangladesh. A former Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League and Political Secretary to the then Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina Wazed who is now serving as Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Mr. Chowdhury was first elected as Member of Bangladesh Parliament in 1996 and was elected for the second five year term in December 2008.

Whilst in Opposition between 2001 to 2008, he championed human rights and individual liberties, was recognized as a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International and demanded urgent reforms in the Caretaker Government System and the Election Commission.

He is the first Parliamentarian in Bangladesh to have initiated Legislation on prohibition of Custodial Torture and Deaths, domestic violence, rights of slum dwellers and repeal of the Leper’s Act which promotes segregation. An active Member of PNND, he successfully piloted a Resolution in Bangladesh Parliament in April 2010 support of UN Secretary General’s 5 point plan calling for Nuclear Disarmament and Non Proliferation.

In April 2010 he was elected the First Vice President of Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union's (IPU) First Standing Committee on Peace and International Security. He is also the elected Vice President from Asia Pacific Geopolitical Group in this Standing Committee.

Mr Chowdhury is the Chair of Bangladesh Parliament’s influential and pro-active All Party Group on Climate Change and Environment – a platform in which a third of all MPs in current Parliament are Members. He is also a Member of Commonwealth Parliamentarians Association (CPA) Task Force on Climate Change.