Abul Kasem Khan new BUILD chairperson
Abul Kasem Khan has been nominated by Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) to take over as the chairperson of the trustee board of Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) for the year 2020-21.
He is the former president of DCCI.
He succeeds Mahbubul Alam, president of The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) who was the chairperson of BUILD for 2018-19.
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Abul Kasem Khan is the director of AK Khan & Co Ltd and managing director of AK Khan Telecom Ltd.
Asif Ibrahim, former chairperson of BUILD and Syed Mohammad Tanvir, director, CCCI have been nominated as new Trustee Board Members of BUILD respectively from Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) and Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI).
In addition to the new trustees, the Trustee Board for 2020 includes Shams Mahmud, president of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), Nihad Kabir, president of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Mahbubul Alam, president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), Farooq Ahmed, secretary-general of MCCI, Md Joynal Abdin, secretary of DCCI and Engr. Mohd. Faruque, secretary of CCCI. Ferdaus Ara Begum, CEO of BUILD is in the Trustee Board as the Member Secretary.
BUILD is a Public-Private Dialogue Platform supported by Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) officially providing secretarial support to the Private Sector Development Policy Coordination Committee headed by the Principal Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) since 2011.
