BSEC gets three commissioners
Dr Sheikh Shamshuddin has been reappointed as a commissioner, while two new additions are Dr ATM Tariquzzaman, CPA, the current managing director of the Dhaka Stock Exchange and Mohammad Mohsin, former DG of the Bangladesh Karmachari Kallyan Board. All three have been given four-year terms.
ATM Tariquzzaman, managing director of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), has been appointed as one of the commissioners at the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC), the regulatory body for the capital market.
The Financial Institutions Division (FID) of the Finance Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard on Wednesday (8 May). According to the gazette, a total of three commissioners have been appointed to the BSEC.
The other two commissioners are Dr Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed of the Finance Department of Dhaka University, who has been reappointed, and Md Mohsin Chowdhury, former director general of Bangladesh Karmachari Kallyan Board (BKKB).
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The three commissioners will serve in the commission for the next four years after their joining, the notification reads.
Previously, The FID published a gazette on 28 April appointing Shibli Rubayat-Ul Islam, a banking and insurance professor at Dhaka University for a second term, about 15 days before the expiry of his first four-year tenure.
The four-year tenure of the five-member commission of BSEC will expire this month.
Dr Rubana Islam, a current commissioner, will continue with the new commission as her tenure will expire after two years. She joined the commission in May 2022 as the first female commissioner of BSEC.
ATM Tariquzzman is the first commissioner, who had served as an executive director at BSEC, and now has become a commissioner.
In September 2023, he left the job at BSEC as he was appointed as managing director of the DSE.
Previously, Prof Swapan Kumar Bala, a former managing director of the DSE, had served as commissioner at the BSEC.
Dr Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed, professor of the Finance Department of Dhaka University was appointed at BSEC as commissioner in 2020 for his first term. Now, he is again appointed to the commission for the next four years.
Previously, Dr Shamsuddin served at Janata Bank as director and was a senior economist at the World Bank's Dhaka office.
Md Mohsin Chowdhury is a former government officer, who last served as DG of the Bangladesh Karmachari Kallyan Board. He will join the commission as commissioner after 2 June.
