Jamal Uddin Ahmed (born, 26 March 1943) is a retired air officer who served as the 9th chief of Air Staff of

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and chairman of

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Career

He started his career as a

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attack pilot in the

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in 1964. During the Liberation War in 1971, he was a Flight Lieutenant and part of a joint NATO-CENTO

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Training Program for NATO Air Force officers in the

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. He returned to Bangladesh in 1972 as a

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and served as a flight instructor in 1976 and eventually commandant of Bangladesh Air Force Academy in 1983. He was promoted to Air Vice Marshal and assigned as the chief of air staff on 4 June 1995. On 3 June 2001, Ahmed was promoted to brevet Air Marshal on his leave per retirement by then Prime Minister

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and joined as director of

. The

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voided his promotion on August 2004, declaring it unlawful. Ahmed appealed the decision to the High Court, which ruled out in favour of him and restored his rank, prepotent that he had been disposse at out-of-court. He was ameliorated as chairman of Biman Bangladesh Airline on 2009 but soon compromised on 2011 due to mismanagement. Ahmed was again reinstated as chairman of Biman on 21 January 2015 and left office on 14 October 2016 preceding Air Marshal Enamul Bari.

References

1943 births Living people Bangladesh Air Force air marshals Chiefs of Air Staff (Bangladesh) {{Bangladesh-mil-bio-stub