K M Ali Azam is the senior secretary of

Ministry of Public Administration The Ministry of Public Administration () (abbreviated as MoPa) is primarily responsible for management of public administration in Bangladesh. Present minister is Sheikh Hasina Wazed and Minister of State is Farhad Hossain. Present Senior secret ...

. He is the former secretary of

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and a director of British American Tobacco Bangladesh.

Early life

Azam was born in 1953 in Udaipur village,

Mollahat Upazila Mollahat ( bn, মোল্লাহাট) is an upazila of Bagerhat District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. History Mollahat Thana was established in 1967 and was turned into an upazila in 1983. During the War of Liberation (1971) a ba ...

Bagerhat District Bagerhat District ( bn, বাগেরহাট, pron: ''bageɾɦaʈ'') is a district in south-western Bangladesh. It is a part of the Khulna Division. Geography Bagerhat district has a total area of 3959.11 square kilometres. It is bounded by ...

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. He completed his master's degree in economics from the

University of Rajshahi The University of Rajshahi, also known as Rajshahi University or RU ( bn, রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), is a public co-educational research university in Bangladesh situated near the northern Bangladeshi cit ...

Career

Azam joined Bangladesh Civil Service on 20 December 1989 as part of the administration cadre. Azam had served as the assistant commissioner in the Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong District. He was the assistant commissioner of Land in

Meherpur Sadar Upazila Meherpur Sadar ( bn, মেহেরপুর সদর) is an upazila of Meherpur District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. Meherpur is the smallest district of Bangladesh in the South-western part within the Khulna Division. Before the par ...

. He was the upazila nirbahi officer of

Satkhira Sadar Upazila Satkhira Sadar ( bn, সাতক্ষীরা সদর) is an upazila of Satkhira District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. Geography Satkhira Sadar is located at . It has 61839 households and total area 400.82 km2. Satkhira Sadar U ...

in 2004. He was the district commissioner of

Chapai Nawabganj District Chapainawabganj (Bengali: চাঁপাইনবাবগঞ্জ) is located in the north-western part of Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rajshahi Division, and was formerly a sub-division of Malda district. The north and west part of Chap ...

in 2010. He served as the deputy secretary in the

and the joint secretary in the

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. He was the director general of the

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under Prime Minister

Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina Wazed (''née'' Sheikh Hasina ; ; bn, শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ, Shēkh Hasinā, , born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh since January 2 ...

and project director of

a2i Programme Access to Information () of the Prime Minister's Office (now redefined as "Aspire to Innovate" and the program moved under ICT Division) was a programme of the government's Digital Bangladesh agenda which specializes in introducing citizen-centric ...

. Azam has also served as the divisional commissioner of Dhaka Division. He served as the returning officer for the

11th Jatiya Sangsad The Eleventh Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, একাদশ জাতীয় সংসদ, translit= ēkadasha jatīẏa saṅsada, lit=Eleventh National Parliament) was formed with the elected members of the 2018 Bangladesh general election, 11th Gen ...

in the Dhaka City Corporation area in 2018. In 2020, Azam was the secretary at the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Azam was appointed the secretary in the Ministry of Industries on 27 May 2020 replacing Md Abdul Halim. On 21 June 2020, Azam was appointed a non-executive director of British American Tobacco Bangladesh. On 23 March 2021, Azam was the special guest in the

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's program titled ''“Leaving No Micro Merchants Behind in the Digital Era in Bangladesh”''. On 10 May 2021, Azam was appointed the senior secretary of the

. He is a syndicate member of

Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Khulna University of Engineering & Technology ( bn, খুলনা প্রকৌশল ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, ) commonly known as KUET (; bn, কুয়েট), formerly BIT, Khulna, is a ...

. He is a director of the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Azam, K M Ali Living people 1953 births People from Bagerhat District Bangladeshi civil servants Bangladeshi economists University of Rajshahi alumni