BDBL gets two new directors

Md Abid Hossain Khan and Nurun Naher Osmani have joined Bangladesh Development Bank PLC (BDBL) as directors of its board.

The Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance appointed them through a recent circular, according to a press release.

Abid Hossain is a fellow chartered accountant with more than 20 years of post-qualification experience in financial management, financial planning and analysis, taxation, treasury, business performance and corporate governance.

He has held senior finance positions at Grameenphone, Banglalink, STS Group and Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). He has also written on fiscal and tax policy for academic journals and national newspapers.
Nurun Naher holds LL.B. (Honours) and LL.M. degrees from the University of Dhaka. She joined the Bangladesh Judicial Service in 1983 and served in various judicial roles before retiring in 2016 as a Senior District and Sessions Judge. She later served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh, from 2016 to 2019. In her final judicial posting, she was a member of the Labour Appellate Tribunal.

Nurun Naher also served as president of the Bangladesh Women Judges Association from 2013 to 2015.