Ghulam Rahman () is a former government secretary at the Ministry of Shipping and president of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh. He is the former chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission and

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Career

Rahman taught economics at the

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in the 1960s after which he joined the

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of Pakistan. Rahman retired as secretary of the Ministry of Shipping in 2004. In 2007, the caretaker government appointed Rahman chairman of

. On 1 May 2009, Rahman was appointed chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission. Rahman replaced

Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury United States Army War College, awc, psc (military), psc (; born 9 September 1948) is a retired Bangladesh Army general who was 11th Chief of Army Staff of the Bangladesh Army from 16 June 2002 to 15 June 2005. He was the ...

. The government of Bangladesh also downgraded the status of the post from that of a minister to that of a judge of

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. In 2013, Rahman said that the Anti-Corruption Commission had become "toothless" due to its weak ability to prosecute suspects. He had in the past blamed the judiciary for failure to reduce corruption. On 23 June, he completed his 4 year term as chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission. Rahman became president of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh in August 2014 after the death of the last president, Quazi Faruque. On 8 December 2021, Rahman was re-elected president of the Consumers Association of Bangladesh.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahman, Ghulam Living people Bangladeshi civil servants Year of birth missing (living people) Chairmen of the Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh) Academic staff of the University of Dhaka