Md Touhid Hossain is the Adviser for Foreign Affairs of the Interim Government of Bangladesh on 08 August 2024. He is a former Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh, his tenure being from December 2006 to July 2009. A career Foreign Service officer,  he served in different capacities at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in Bangladesh missions abroad from 1981 to 2014, including stints as First Secretary in Delhi and Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata. He was the High Commissioner of Bangladesh to South Africa with concurrent accreditation to Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. He retired from service in January 2014.