M. Sakhawat Hussain

M. Sakhawat Hussain (born 1 February 1948) is a Bangladeshi author, researcher and former one star army officer. He was the Election Commissioner of Bangladesh from 2007 to 2012 and retired from the Bangladesh Army as a brigadier general. He wrote more than 32 books, and serves as a columnist and freelance commentator on national and international television as a security and defense analyst. Before joining the interim government, he was the senior fellow at the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG) at North South University. He was also an adviser to the Interim government of Bangladesh since August 2024.