Anisul Islam Mahmud

{{infobox officeholder

| name = Anisul Islam Mahmud

| native_name = আনিসুল ইসলাম মাহমুদ

| native_name_lang = bn

| image = Anisul_Islam_Mahmud_portrait.jpg

| caption = Mahmud in 2015

| constituency_MP = Chittagong-5

| parliament = Bangladesh

| term_start = 29 December 2008

| term_end = 6 August 2024

| predecessor = Syed Wahidul Alam

| term_start1 = 2 April 1979

| term_end1 = 6 December 1990

| predecessor1 = Abdul Wahab

| office2 = Minister of Environment and Forest

| term_start2 = 3 January 2018

| term_end2 = 6 January 2019

| primeminister2 = Sheikh Hasina

| predecessor2 = Anwar Hossain Manju

| successor2 = Md. Shahab Uddin

| office3 = Minister of Water Resources

| term_start3 = 14 January 2014

| term_end3 = 3 January 2018

| successor3 = Anwar Hossain Manju

| office4 = Minister of Foreign Affairs

| term_start4 = July 1985

| term_end4 = December 1990

| predecessor4 = Humayun Rashid Choudhury

| successor4 = A S M Mustafizur Rahman

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|12|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Chittagong District, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan

| nationality = Bangladeshi

| alma_mater = {{ubl|University of Dhaka|Quaid-i-Azam University|University of Essex}}

| party = Jatiya Party (Ershad)

| president5 = Hussain Muhammad Ershad

}}

Anisul Islam Mahmud (born 20 December 1947){{Cite web|url=http://www.tritiyomatra.com/profile/79|title=Profile - M A Salam|website=www.tritiyomatra.com|language=en|access-date=2018-01-03}} is a former Minister of Environment and Forest and Minister of Water Resources in the Cabinet of Bangladesh in the Third Hasina ministry{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/council-ministers-reshuffle-comes-surprises-1514674|title=Council of Ministers: Surprises in reshuffle|date=2018-01-04|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-01-03|language=en}}{{cite news |title=Ershad hints at plans to quit as PM's envoy |url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/politics/2016/01/17/ershad-hints-at-plans-to-quit-as-pms-envoy/ |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |date=17 January 2016 |access-date=12 February 2016}} from 2014 to 2019. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1985 to December 1990 under President Hussain Muhammad Ershad.

Mahmud was educated at the University of Dhaka (BA Economics, 1969), Quaide Azam University in Karachi (MSc Economics) and the University of Essex (MA Economics, 1972). He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1975. He was a lecturer of economics at the University of Dhaka from 1969 to 1970, a Senior Research Associate in Economics at the University of East Anglia from 1972 to 1973, and lecturer of economics at the University of Hertfordshire from 1973 to 1977.{{cite web|title=Hon'bl Minister|url=http://www.mowr.gov.bd/site/office_head/965420f0-212a-4617-8f78-74d26b2ea96e/মাননীয়-মন্ত্রী|website=Ministry of Water Resources|access-date=12 February 2016}}

He became a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chittagong-5 constituency in 1979, and was re-elected in 1986 and 1988. He ran again in the June 1996 general election, but lost to the incumbent, Syed Wahidul Alam. He became the MP for Chittagong-5 in 2008, was elected unopposed to Chittagong-5 in 2014, and was re-elected in 2018 and 2024.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/current-mp-s/list-of-11th-parliament-members-english |title=List of 11th Parliament Members |website=Bangladesh Parliament |access-date=10 January 2019}} He was the president of the Bangladesh Cricket Board.{{cite web |title=Former Presidents of Bangladesh Cricket Board |url=https://www.tigercricket.com.bd/former-presidents |website=www.tigercricket.com.bd |publisher=Bangladesh Cricket Board|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241213134143/https://www.tigercricket.com.bd/former-presidents |archive-date=13 December 2024 }}