About The Author

Shiruzimath Sameer is a Maldivian diplomat, author and mother whose twenty-year career has taken her from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Malé to postings in Berlin, Dhaka and New York.

She began her journey into diplomacy in 2006 at the Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR) in Kuala Lumpur and joined the Ministry in 2007. In the years that followed, she held a range of senior roles, first in the Human Resources Division and later as Permanent Secretary. As Chargé d’Affaires, she was instrumental in opening the first resident Embassy of the Maldives in Berlin, and as High Commissioner in Dhaka, she led the mission through a global pandemic. She went on to serve as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative at the Maldives Mission to the United Nations in New York and is now Additional Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Malé.

In 2023, she co-edited Island Life, a children’s book celebrating cultural exchange between the Maldives and Bangladesh and co-published it with HerStory. Carrying the Maldives is her first memoir, a story of postings, farewells, and raising children who call more than one place home.

She is married and the proud mother of a daughter and a son.