H.E. Mrs Mahmuda Haque Choudhury is the first career woman diplomat of Bangladesh, posted as Ambassador to Bhutan. She joined the Foreign service in 1972, by the special order of the then Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheik Mujibur Rahman, as the first Foreign Service woman officer of Bangladesh. She was awarded as one of the top ten women of 1996 of Bangladesh. She was born in 1943. She obtained her Masters Degree in Political Science from Dhaka University in 1964 and also Masters Degree in International Law and Diplomacy form Tufts University in Boston in 1976.  

She began her career in 1971 as Lecturer in Political Science at Dhaka College. In 1972, she joined the Bangladesh Government service as Assistant Secretary at the Secretariat of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. In the same year, she was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and since then she was in the Diplomatic service and performed duties in several Embassies of Bangladesh in various part of the globe. 

She was married to Mr Md. Shamsul Haque, a member of the then Pakistan Police Service, who was killed by the Pakistan Army in 1971 during the liberation war. She remarried later to Barrister Viquarul Islam Choudhury.  She is blessed with two daughters, Shahereen Shums and Rayaan Shums. Her hobbies are traveling, swimming, reading, gardening and painting.