Ahmad Kaikaus is a retired Bangladeshi

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who served as the Alternate Executive Director of World Bank. He served as the Principal Secretary to the

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Education

Kaikaus completed his bachelors and master's from the University of Chittagong. He completed his second master's at the Center for Development Economics at

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. He earned a PhD at the

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Career

On 21 January 1986, Kaikaus joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in the administrative cadre. He has worked as a Upazila Nirbahi Officer, magistrate and several other positions in the field and central secretariat in the early stages of his career. He served as the chairperson of the Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council. He taught at the

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and

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in Texas. On 23 February 2017, he was appointed secretary in charge of the

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of the

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. He worked at the

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for three years as the deputy chief of the Policy Research and Strategy Support Program. In August 2019, he led the Bangladeshi team to the joint steering committee on Bangladesh-India Power Sector Cooperation. He rejected the import of electricity from Tripura, finding its infrastructure inadequate. On 29 December 2019, he was appointed the Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office under Prime Minister

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. He was reappointed by the prime minister in December 2020 with a 2-year extension. On 7 February 2024, Kaikaus was relieved from his role as the Alternate Executive Director of World Bank Group with immediate effect.

References

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