A.N.M.Muniruzzaman is a former career military officer who served 38 years in active duty. He had the distinction of serving as the Military Secretary (Principal Military Advisor) to the President of Bangladesh. He later served as the Director General and CEO of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has been an appointed as a Lifetime Honorary Advisor to the board of the institute. He was part of and led a number of military delegations to various countries and NATO exercises.

General Muniruzzaman established the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS) in 2007 upon his retirement from the Army. BIPSS focuses on the whole spectrum of security issues - traditional, non- traditional and trans-national security issues. He is an alumnus of the National University of Bangladesh, National Defence College, Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College, US Naval War College, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii and the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2014, he was awarded the APCSS Alumni Achievement Award.