M Syeduzzaman (Born: 27 October 1933) is a former finance secretary and member of the Central Committee of

Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BaKSAL) ( bn, বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ "Bangladesh Worker-Peasant's People's League"; বাকশাল) was a political front comprising B ...

. He is the chairperson of

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. He is a member of the Trustee Board of the

Centre for Policy Dialogue The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), established in 1993 by Rehman Sobhan, its Founder chairman, with support from leading civil society institutions in Bangladesh, is mandated by its Deed of Trust to service the growing demand originating ...

Early life and education

Syeduzzaman completed his master's in physics from the University of Dhaka in 1956. He completed his second master's from

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kille ...

in development economics in 1963.

Career

From 1973 to 1976, Syeduzzaman was the Secretary at the Ministry of Planning and the Planning Commission. He was also the Secretary at the

Economic Relations Division The Economic Relations Division (ERD) is one of the four divisions of the Ministry of Finance, of the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The other three divisions of the Ministry of Finance are: Finance Division, Bank and Financial ...

. From 1976 to 1977, Syeduzzaman was the Secretary at the

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. During that time he also served in the Board of Governors of the

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) ( bn, বাংলাদেশ কৃষি গবেষণা ইনস্টিটিউট) is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of agriculture, that conducts research on all crops e ...

and the

Bangladesh Rice Research Institute Bangladesh Rice Research Institute () is an agricultural research institute in Bangladesh, located in Gazipur. Mr. Md. Shahjahan Kabir is the current head of this institution. It is an autonomous institution run under The ministry of Agricult ...

. Syeduzzaman worked at the World Bank from 1977 to 1982 as external director in the section for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka. Syeduzzaman again served as the Secretary at the

from 1982 to 1983. From 1984 to 1985, he was the chairperson of the

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board of governors. From January 1984 to December 1987, Syeduzzaman worked as the Principal Finance Secretary and Advisor to the President of Bangladesh,

Hussain Mohammad Ershad Lt. Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad ( bn, হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ; 1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi Army Chief politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time ma ...

. He held the rank of a cabinet minister in charge of Ministry of Finance and the Planning Ministry. He was a Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute from 1986 to 1993. From 1999 to 2008, Syeduzzaman was the chairperson of

Bank Asia Limited Bank Asia Limited is a private sector commercial bank in Bangladesh. Areef Billah Adil Chowdhury is the President and Managing Director of the bank. Romo Rouf Chowdhury, chairman of Rancon Group, is the chairman of Bank Asia Limited. History The ...

. From 2002 to 2008, he was the chairperson of the Bangladesh Rice Foundation.

References

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