Siddiqur Rahman Choudhury is a former finance secretary of the government of Bangladesh and former chairperson of the

Social Marketing Company Social Marketing Company (aka SMC) is a Bangladeshi non-profit organisation which offers education and products for family planning, maternal and child health, and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and AIDS. It is the largest soc ...

. He is the former chairman of

Agrani Bank Agrani Bank PLC. () is a state-owned commercial bank of Bangladesh established in 1972. Its headquarters is situated at Motijheel in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Md. Anwarul Islam is the CEO of Agrani Bank. History Agrani Bank Lim ...

, Sadharan Bima Corporation, and Sonali Bank, UK Ltd. He is the former independent director of MIDAS Financing Limited.

Early life

Choudhury was born in 1949 in

Sylhet District Sylhet District (), located in north-east Bangladesh, is one of the four districts in Sylhet Division, which contains Sylhet, the regional capital. History Sylhet District was established on 3 January 1782, and until 1878 it was part of Benga ...

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

, Pakistan. He completed his bachelor's and master's in chemistry from the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (), also known as Dhaka University (DU), is a public university, public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in the country. The University of Dhaka w ...

. He also has a diploma in public financial management (PFM) from the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...

in the United States.

Career

In 1977, Choudhury joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in the audit and accounts cadre. Choudhury was the secretary of the Finance Division of the

Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minister, an executive or cabinet position . A ministry of finance's portfoli ...

in 2006 under

M Saifur Rahman Mohammad Saifur Rahman (Bengali: সাইফুর রহমান; 6 October 1932 – 5 September 2009) was a Bangladeshi chartered accountant, economist and politician. He was a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the longest-servi ...

, minister of finance. That year he became the secretary of finance. In July 2006, he told the media that it will take some time to verify things before the funds requested by the Election Commission Secretariat was released. In 2007, as chairman of Agrani Bank, Choudhury took steps to turn the bank into a public limited company. On 19 March 2014, Choudhury became an independent director of MIDAS Financing Limited. He is an independent director of National Housing Finance and Investments Limited. He served as team leader of SPFMSP Project of the Maxwell Stamp. He participated in a memorial event held in honor of former finance minister M Saifur Rahman on 5 September 2015. Choudhury became the chairman of Social Marketing Company in September 2017 for a two-year term. Choudhury was reelected chairman of Social Marketing Company on 7 September 2019.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Choudhury, Siddiqur Rahman Living people Bangladeshi civil servants 1949 births People from Sylhet District Bangladeshi bankers University of Dhaka alumni