Executive Body

Asif Saleh
Executive Director
BRAC

Asif Saleh is the executive director of BRAC. He brings with him a diverse multi-sectoral experience in senior leadership roles in private, public, and non-government sectors, with a proven track record of effectively managing interfaces of development programming, operational and financial sustainability, and building effective partnerships, both within and outside BRAC.

Prior to joining BRAC, Mr Saleh worked as a policy specialist for UNDP Bangladesh. As part of the Government’s Digital Bangladesh initiative, he led the policy effort to expand affordable broadband connectivity across Bangladesh and devised the Government's m-governance strategy. He spent 12 years in Goldman Sachs in different fin-tech roles in New York and London ending his term there as an Executive Director. He has also worked in Glaxo Wellcome, IBM and Nortel.

Mr. Saleh is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. He is also an active member in a range of international networks and alliances advocating inclusive achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. He is a member of the Millions Learning International Advisory Group, Brookings Institute, a member of the advisory group of South Africa-based Innovation Edge, an institution promoting early childhood development. He is a member of the global board for Generation Unlimited, a global body of UNICEF promoting youth skills, and also a member of the global governing council of Water Resource Group 2030.

Mr Saleh chairs BRAC IT Services Limited, co-chairs BRAC Net, and is on the Board of BRAC Bank, bKash, and edotco Bangladesh Ltd. He also chairs the Institute of Informatics and Development.

He was recognised for his work by Asia Society’s Asia 21 programme in 2008, the Bangladeshi American Foundation in 2007, and was selected as an Asia 21 Fellow in 2012. He was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013.

Mr Saleh holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science and an MBA in management and marketing from the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Shameran Abed
Executive Director
BRAC International

Shameran Abed is the Executive Director of BRAC International.

Shameran joined BRAC Bangladesh in 2009 and BRAC International in 2012, and has been instrumental in bringing BRAC’s flagship programmes of microfinance and ultra-poor graduation to global scale. Under his leadership, BRAC International’s microfinance portfolio has seen impressive growth and a renewed focus on client impact. Since 2016, Shameran has also led BRAC’s ultra-poor graduation work and played an instrumental role in setting up the UPGI to spearhead global advocacy and provide technical assistance to governments and other organisations.

Shameran has significant Board experience on several non-profit and corporate entities, chairing the board of bKash, BRAC Bank’s mobile financial services subsidiary and one of the world’s largest mobile money providers, and serving on the boards of several institutions including BRAC Bank, BRAC Uganda Bank, and the Global Alliance for Banking on Values (GABV).

Shameran is also chairman of the Microfinance Network and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Partnership for Economic Inclusion at the World Bank. Shameran holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Hamilton College in the United States and is a qualified Barrister in the UK.

Tamara Hasan Abed
Managing Director
Enterprises, BRAC

Tamara Hasan Abed is the Managing Director of BRAC Enterprises heading BRAC's ten social enterprises including Aarong, BRAC Dairy and BRAC Seed and Agro.

Ms Abed brings with her extensive experience in investment banking, entrepreneurship and social enterprise, with a career spanning two and a half decades. She is passionate about driving value-based business models, operating at the intersection of social good, sustainable business and inclusive growth.

Ms Abed began her career in investment banking in 1995, at Peregrine Capital Ltd, a Hong Kong based investment bank in Dhaka. Later she moved to New York and worked for Goldman Sachs in Mergers and Strategic Advisory.

She joined Aarong as the general manager for design and product development in 2002. She later took charge of its export division and established the marketing department. In 2005, she was promoted as the head of Aarong and Ayesha Abed Foundation. Under her leadership, Aarong has gone from strength to strength, celebrating 40 years in 2018 as Bangladesh’s most popular lifestyle retail chain. She has been instrumental in driving the expansion of Aarong to 22 national outlets, multiple brands, e-commerce and digital platforms.

In 2006, Ms Abed was also given charge of BRAC Dairy, and since then has built a strong team to take the dairy business to new heights. BRAC Dairy is currently the second highest dairy processor in Bangladesh with a diverse portfolio of products. In 2014, she took charge of all BRAC’s social enterprises. Ms Abed served on the board of directors of BRAC Bank for eight years from 2008 to 2016. She currently serves on the boards of IPDC Finance, BRAC EPL Investments, BRAC EPL Stock Brokerage and edotco Bangladesh.

Ms Abed was elected as Chairperson of the BRAC University Board of Trustees in 2019, of which she was a member from January 2011. She chaired the board finance committee from December 2016 to June 2019, and was a member of the BU Syndicate from March 2011 to June 2019. She currently chairs the Board of BRAC Services Limited and is the executive trustee of Ayesha Abed Foundation. She also chairs the board of BRAC Tea Estates since August 2019.

Ms Abed has represented Bangladesh globally and was honoured by the World Economic Forum as a 'Young Global Leader' in 2010. Ms Abed is an Asia 21 Young Leader. She received the Outstanding Women Leadership Award from the World Women Leadership Congress in 2014.

Ms Abed has an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York. She completed her BSC in Economics from the London School of Economics. In 2014, Ms Abed completed an executive course on Transformational Leadership at Oxford University’s Said Business School.

Jerome Oberreit
Executive Director
BRAC Global

Jerome Oberreit is the Executive Director of BRAC Global.

Before joining BRAC, Mr Oberreit was Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), a new initiative launched by the World Health Organisation and Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative. From 2012 to 2018, he was the Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières International having been the Director of programmes from 2006 to 2012. He was instrumental in coordinating complex organisational systems in a multi-centric organisation focused on providing health services to the most neglected in resource-limited environments. In this role he led global positioning efforts and defined strategies and systems for securing resources (financial, human, and technical), ensuring both internal and external accountability. He also has country-level experience with MSF in several African countries and in the Middle East.

Mr Oberreit holds a master’s in geography, and a bachelor’s in politics and geography.

Sabbir Ahmed
Chief Financial Officer
BRAC

Sabbir Ahmed, Chief Financial Officer of BRAC, is a seasoned finance professional with over 26 years of experience in finance and operations management. His career spans start-ups, local conglomerates, diversified business groups, and multibillion-dollar global organisations. Mr Ahmed has a proven track record in optimising operations, establishing strong financial controls, and implementing efficient systems and processes. His core expertise includes productivity enhancement, business performance turnaround, and change management.

Prior to joining BRAC, Mr Ahmed served as the Chief Financial Officer at Ha-Meem Group, where he integrated financial systems, streamlined reporting processes, and enhanced decision-making analytics. He also led governance improvement initiatives, implemented performance dashboards across 25 garment units, and introduced key governance policies.

Earlier in his career, Mr Ahmed played a pivotal role in the consolidation of three battery companies under the Rahimafrooz Storage Power Division, leading to a significant business turnaround. At ACI Logistics Limited, he established a new legal entity and rolled out comprehensive business processes within just 18 months, laying the foundation for the retail brand Shwapno.

Mr Ahmed also held leadership roles as Group CFO at Babylon Group and CFO for the Storage Power Business at Rahimafrooz.

He holds a Master of Commerce degree from the University of Dhaka and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB).

Divya Bajpai
Executive Director
BRAC Europe

Divya Bajpai is the executive director of BRAC in Europe. She has more than 25 years of progressive experience in global health and international development.

Previously, she was interim executive director at Frontline AIDS, responsible for supporting and developing over 60 southern based regional and national partners focusing on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. During her time at Frontline AIDS, she developed new strategic partnerships with leading international partners to support their work around the world, and successfully influenced the policies and priorities of international bodies on sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her role took her to more than thirty countries around the world.

She holds a degree in French and Spanish, and she also speaks Hindi and Urdu, and some Bengali. She also holds an MPhil from the Institute of Development Studies, a postgraduate diploma in Psychology and an International Masters in Practising Management (IMPM).

Julia Roberts
President and CEO
BRAC USA

Julia Roberts is the President and CEO of BRAC in USA. She has 30 years of experience in international development.

Previously, she was Vice President of Global Fundraising and Communications at Population Services International (PSI). Since 2008, her skills and leadership grew out of delivering programmes across the Caribbean, Latin America and Asia. Prior to this, she worked for USAID, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

She holds a master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and is a Chartered Advisor of Philanthropy.

Arinjoy Dhar
Senior Director
Microfinance, BRAC

Arinjoy Dhar is the Senior Director for Microfinance at BRAC.

Mr Dhar has diverse and extensive experience in strategy implementation, large-scale transformation, digital innovation and adaptation, process improvement initiatives, and customer experience improvement initiatives. He has a proven record of developing strong and successful teams and is passionate about talent development and frugal innovation.

Before joining BRAC, Mr Dhar worked for HSBC Hong Kong Commercial Banking as the Head of Operational Excellence. Prior to this, he worked as the COO Commercial Banking for Pearl River Delta at HSBC China. He held strategic management positions and worked for Commercial Banking teams in Hong Kong, Canada, China, and Bangladesh. He also worked for Asia Pacific Retail Banking, Global Trade and Receivable Finance, Global Insurance, Financial Control, Banking Operations, Credit Risk, Learning and Development functions. He did a short time assignment in Vietnam as Country COO and worked on initiatives in Indonesia and Thailand and attended workshops in Mexico, the UK, Canada, and India.

Mr Dhar holds a Master's Degree in Leadership Practice and Responsibility from Lancaster University and is also a Fellow Member of CIMA and CPA (Australia). He attended advanced management programmes at McGill University, the University of Cambridge, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Hossain Ishrath Adib
Senior Director
Integrated Development,
Ultra-Poor Graduation, and
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
BRAC

Hossain Ishrath Adib is the senior director of Integrated Development, Ultra-Poor Graduation, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) at BRAC.

Mr Adib is a seasoned development professional with over 25 years of experience. He started his career as a programme organiser at the microfinance programme in BRAC. He spent the first 15 years of his career at BRAC in multiple roles in different programmes, including microfinance and public health. He was instrumental in designing and implementing BRAC’s development initiatives in Uganda, Tanzania, and Indonesia. He served as the country programme manager of BRAC in Tanzania between 2008 and 2009.

Over the years, Mr Adib’s professional engagement expanded into piloting and scaling up development projects in the fields of WASH, community resilience building, and integration of digital services with multi-sectoral engagement in rural, urban, and humanitarian contexts. He also worked in WaterAid, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, and Practical Action in various leadership roles. Prior to joining BRAC in 2023, he served as the director of programmes at WaterAid Bangladesh for about three years. He occasionally teaches courses on Development Economics.

Mr Adib pursued his Master’s in Development Economics from The Australian National University and Bachelor’s in Economics from North South University.

KAM Morshed
Senior Director
Advocacy, Innovation and MEAL
BRAC

KAM Morshed leads BRAC’s advocacy, partnership, social innovation lab, technology, and monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning teams. He facilitates BRAC’s policy engagements and stimulates technology adaptation to help reimagine BRAC’s internal processes and programme interventions. He is also responsible for fostering partnership between BRAC and the government to help expand BRAC’s impact.

Before joining BRAC in October 2015, Mr Morshed led Bangladesh’s Policy, Innovation and Communication teams at UNDP for over 10 years. In that role, he managed UNDP-government partnerships and supervised various programme interventions in the areas of ICT4D, MDGs, aid effectiveness, trade, and south-south cooperation.

Mr Morshed has contributed, in various capacities, in the formulation of a number of policies, such as the e-Payment Policy (2005), the Bangladesh ICT Policy (2005, 2010 and 2015), the PPP Policy (2010), Bangladesh Social Safety Net Policy (2015), 6th Five Year Plan (2011-2016), and the 7th Five Year Plan (2016-2020).

Mr Morshed sponsored four successful start-ups, including the country’s first GIS Data Management/BPO company (1993), the first chain supermarket (2001), and the first Business Process Reengineering Consulting House (1999).

He joined his alma mater as a teacher in 1998, teaching MIS and public/development finance. As a professor and specialist, he led and participated in several notable process reengineering projects. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and periodicals.

Mr Morshed received both his master’s and bachelor’s degrees with honours from the Department of Finance and Banking of the University of Dhaka. His interests include innovation, behavioural insights, future casting, and social enterprises.

Dr Md Akramul Islam
Senior Director
Health and
Humanitarian Crisis Management
BRAC

Dr Md Akramul Islam is the Senior Director of health and humanitarian crisis management programme (HCMP) at BRAC. He is also an adjunct professor at James P Grant School of Public Health at BRAC University.

Dr Islam completed his master’s in primary health care management at Mahidol University of Thailand, and PhD in international community health at University of Tokyo, Japan. He joined BRAC in 1993 and has served in various capacities since then.

Dr Islam has contributed over 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and is a co-author of Making Tuberculosis History: Community-based Solution for Millions. He also wrote a chapter in From one to Many: Scaling Up Health Programs in Low Income Countries.

Dr Islam served as a technical consultant to the International Union against TB and Lung Disease for South East Asia Region from 2009-2010. He was a technical advisory group (STAG) member of WHO on TB in Geneva from 2013-2015. He now serves as chair for the Working Group on Evidence-based Research on Tobacco Control at the International Union against TB and Lung Disease. He is also a member of Technical Working Group of WHO SEARO.

Dr Islam was nominated for the Global Development Network award from the World Bank in 2002 for his PhD research on cost-effectiveness on TB control programme in Bangladesh. In 2008, the International Union against TB and Lung Disease South East Asian Region recognised him for his leadership in public-private partnership model on TB control.

Dr Islam was a visiting lecturer at the University of Tokyo from 2002-2005, and at Harvard University from 2008-2009.

Mohammad Anisur Rahman
Senior Director
Enterprises, BRAC

Mohammad Anisur Rahman leads social enterprises of BRAC in livestock, agriculture, aquaculture, horticulture, healthcare and other sectors. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors for BRAC Services Limited, BRAC Industries Limited, and Bangladesh Netting Factory Limited.

Mr Rahman has about twenty years of progressive leadership experience in managing multiple businesses with forward and backward linkages in FMCG, Food and Agro Processing. He strives to create an enabling and cohesive environment where people can sell their ideas, get empowered and drive changes. Prior to joining BRAC in October 2016, he was working as chief operating officer at PRAN, one of the largest agro-processors in Bangladesh. He also worked for other reputed organisations - Rahimafrooz, AC Nielsen Bangladesh, United Nations and Bangladesh University of Professionals.

Mr Rahman brings with him a wealth of leadership experience, especially in the areas of marketing, sales, customer care, supply chain, human resources, production, and value chain integration. He specialises in orchestrating large projects, start-ups, turnarounds and growth ventures. He is driven to provide strategic directions and improve the bottom line, while ensuring staff compliance to business policies and procedures.

He holds an MBA in Marketing from University of Dhaka and obtained special training from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Mr Rahman has special interests in travelling, movies and golfing.

Moutushi Kabir
Senior Director
People, Culture and Communications
BRAC

Moutushi Kabir joined BRAC in January 2018. She has over 20 years of international, senior leadership experience in diverse sectors namely advertising, telecommunications, tobacco and healthcare.

Ms Kabir started her career in the advertising industry and has taken progressively senior roles in leading multinational companies like British American Tobacco, Telenor Bangladesh, Nokia and Novartis. She was the Regional Communications Head of Nokia Emerging Asia overseeing five countries (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan). Prior to joining BRAC, she was heading Global Leadership and Associate Communications at Sandoz International, a division of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, based in Germany.

Ms Kabir has been part of large-scale organisational transformation and culture change initiatives throughout her career. She has led behavioural change and quality consciousness in pharmaceutical company Sandoz's worldwide manufacturing network, as their Global Head of Quality Communications. As the business partner of Sandoz's Global Head of Human Resources, she had first-hand experience driving people-centric dialogue and engagement with diverse international colleagues across more than 160 countries. She has also been part of the Executive Leadership Team of Novartis Bangladesh, leading a transformation process that turned the company into the best performing team in Asia.

She completed her bachelor’s in business administration specialising in marketing from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka and master’s in business administration specialising in Corporate Social Responsibility from the University of Nottingham, UK.

AFM Shahidur Rahman
Director
Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning, BRAC
Risk Management Services, BRAC

AFM Shahidur Rahman is the Director, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning and Risk Management Services at BRAC.

Prior to joining BRAC, Mr Rahman worked as the Director of Organisational Transition at CARE Bangladesh. He brings along over 18 years of experience in programme designing, leading strategic management change processes, managing multi-country, multi-lingual programme and project management. He also served Actionaid Bangladesh and Actionaid International for 16 years in various positions where he provided leadership to one of the largest food security networks present in 35 countries in five continents, working with more than a million people. He also led and managed Livelihoods Security and Risk Reduction sector of Actionaid in Bangladesh.

Mr Rahman pursued his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, and Master’s in Economics from the same university.

Ahmed Najmul Hussain
Director
Administration, BRAC
Road Safety, BRAC

Ahmed Najmul Hussain is the director of the administration and road safety programme. A graduate of the Police Staff College, UK, Mr Hussain has worked in a variety of law enforcement capacities. He was the superintendent of police in seven districts, as well as additional inspector general of Bangladesh Police, and commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

He previously served as lieutenant to major in the Pakistan and Bangladesh armies. Mr Hussain’s earlier positions include chairman of the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and team leader of the World Bank’s community road safety initiatives project.

At BRAC, Mr Hussain has been responsible for procurement, advocacy, estate, logistics, transport, security, construction, IT systems, telecommunications, road safety and the central store.

He has received various awards, including the Good Service Badge of Bangladesh Police (1994), and the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award, UK (2002).

Rakib Uddin Ahmed
Director
Operations, BRAC

Rakib Uddin Ahmed is the Director of Operations at BRAC.

Rakib Uddin Ahmed has over 35 years of experience in management across diverse sectors. Prior to joining BRAC, Rakib Uddin Ahmed served as the Director of Budget at Bangladesh Army Headquarters. He was in charge of estate, legal, projects and procurement.

He also served as the Director of Trust Bank PLC where he supervised legal matters, loan recovery, asset analysis, and workforce management. He also served as the Director for Radisson Hotels.

Earlier, Rakib Uddin Ahmed served as Force Chief of Staff (FCOS) of the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo, leading over 17,000 personnel from more than 55 countries. He has worked with international organisations such as the African Union, UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, WHO, WFP, and OXFAM, as well as the Government of Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mr Ahmed holds a Master's degree in Science and Technology from University of Chittagong, another Masters in Defense Studies from National University, Bangladesh as well as an Executive Masters in Business Administration from the Royal University in Dhaka.

Mafruza Khan
Director
Global Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships
BRAC

Ms. Mafruza Khan is the Director of Global Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships at BRAC.

Ms. Khan's career in philanthropy, consulting and as an analyst span over 25 years. Her work focused on the intersection of social justice, economic equity, environmental sustainability and good governance. She has a successful track record of serving as an inclusive and effective organisational leader and manager, mobilising resources, fostering strategic partnerships, developing and implementing strategy, programmes and operational plans, forecasting and managing budgets and facilitating engagement among diverse stakeholders. Prior to joining BRAC, she worked as the CEO & Advisor for Asia Philanthropy Circle (APC) in Singapore in 2021. At APC, she provided overall leadership and developed, articulated and visualised the organisational model (operating, programmatic and business). Ms. Khan started her career at Grindlays Bank ANZ in Dhaka but after completing her management training she realized she was not interested in a career in banking. After completing graduate studies in the U.S., she spent the next decade working in responsible investing and corporate governance, as an analyst in San Francisco and Washington DC, followed by a focus on community development and structural racism in in the U.S for the next 5 years. She spent the next 12 years in the philanthropy sector. She has held leadership positions in European and American organizations, including Porticus (The Netherlands), Environmental Grantmakers Association (New York, NY), Center for Social Inclusion (New York, NY), and the Pratt Center for Community Development (Brooklyn, NY) etc.

Ms. Khan has Master’s degrees in City & Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley and in Economics from Dhaka University. She was the single winner of the World Bank Graduate Scholarship from Bangladesh, which supported her graduate studies at Berkeley. She completed her bachelors in Economics from Dhaka University as well.

Md Liakath Ali
Director
Climate Change, BRAC
Urban Development, BRAC
Disaster Risk Management, BRAC

Dr Md Liakath Ali is the director of the climate change programme, the urban development programme and the disaster risk management programme at BRAC.

Dr Ali has 32 years of working experience with various government, non-government, donor and UN agencies. He started his career with a private company in 1986, and later moved to Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) in 1988, where he worked in the capacity of assistant engineer, sub divisional engineer and executive engineer until 2008. In 2008, he joined Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) as deputy managing director (RPD and O&M) and continued there until August 2011. He joined as a climate change adaptation specialist in CDMP-II, UNDP in January 2012. In November 2012, he moved to DFID (now FCDO) Bangladesh as the adviser for climate change and environment. Subsequently he joined WaterAid Bangladesh as the director of programme and policy advocacy, and worked there till August 2019.

Over the period he acquired experience in integrated water resources management, trans-boundary water basin management, climate change adaptation and resilience building, disaster management, risk reduction, urban development, and coastal planning and implementation. He is proficient in dealing with environmental issues including impact assessment and studies and projects management. He has a sound knowledge on many key thematic areas of operation and maintenance, institutional aspects, research works, macro and micro level planning and teaching. His key qualifications also include formulation of policy, strategy development, construction, monitoring and evaluation and knowledge management approach. He has a number of publications on environmental issues as well.

Dr Ali has excellent academic attainments. Academically he is an engineer who completed his BSc in Civil Engineering in 1986, from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He did his MSc in Hydraulic Engineering (Land and Development) from the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands in 1995. Later in 2002, he completed his PhD from the Wageningen University and the International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands.

Nanda Dulal Saha FCA
Director
Internal Audit, BRAC

Mr Nanda Dulal Saha is an experienced professional with 15 years’ of specialized work experience in areas of corporate governance, internal control, compliance, accounting, risk management and IT. He joined BRAC as head of internal audit in 2007 and continues to serve the organization as an internal audit leader. Under his leadership, the internal audit function plays an important role in providing risk-based assurance, advisory and insights to management of BRAC. Prior to joining BRAC, he worked for audit and assurance services with Rahman Rahman Huq, Chartered Accountants (KPMG Bangladesh).

He served on the board of BRAC EPL Investments Limited from 2009 to 2014. Mr Saha provided assurance services for Asian University for Women, BiTS, BRACNet, BRAC University and its institutes. He was board member of Information System Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Dhaka, Bangladesh Chapter from 2012 to 2015 and Chairman of Finance, Audit and Compliance Committee of ISACA Dhaka Chapter during 2014-15. He served as a member of Quality Assurance Board, Review Committee for Best Published Accounts & Reports (RCBPR), Professional Accountant in Business, Technical and Research Committee (TRC), Information & Communication Committee, Members Services and Welfare Committee (MSWC) under ICAB.

Mr Saha was the faculty of BRAC University and is a resource person for training courses on internal audit and risk management organized by IIAB. He developed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework of BRAC International in the Asian and African countries by providing extensive capacity building training and consultation.

At present, he serves on the board of The Institute of Internal Auditors of Bangladesh (IIAB) as the Treasurer and chairs the Standards Implementation Sub-Committee of IIAB. Besides, he is currently member of multiple committees under ICAB.

Mr Saha is closely affiliated with a number of national and international level forums and networks such as South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA), The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA, USA), The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and has attended many training, seminars and conferences organized by these bodies in the country and abroad.

Mr Saha is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and a member of The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), USA and IIA Bangladesh, and also member of Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), USA and member of ISACA Dhaka, Bangladesh Chapter.

Safi Rahman Khan
Director
Education,
Skills Development, and
Migration
BRAC

Safi Rahman Khan is the Director of education, skills development and migration programme at BRAC.

Mr Khan has been the Strategy and Transformation Advisor of BRAC education programme since October 1, 2020 and has been involved in various strategic initiatives of education programme, including the social enterprise wing. Prior to joining BRAC, he was the Advisor (Strategy) in Apex Footwear Limited (AFL) under Apex Group. Earlier, he was the Executive Director, overseeing human resources and compliance at AFL. His initial appointment in the Apex Group was as the Project Director of Blue Ocean Footwear Limited, a Bangladeshi-Taiwanese joint venture, where he led the first phase of the project.

Mr Khan has experience working in the social sector. He was the Executive Director of the Bangladesh Freedom Foundation, an indigenous grant-making organisation, where he guided the Foundation’s revised strategic focus and reduced institutional costs while increasing the grant-making budget. He was also the Country Representative of Ashoka Innovators for the Public in Bangladesh, a US-based international network of social entrepreneurs working on system changing ideas, and was responsible for restarting the country programme and overseeing the election of 28 Ashoka Fellows.

Mr Khan has taught courses on NGOs and Social Entrepreneurship and conducted workshops on corporate governance for NGO Board members. He is currently on the Board of two Bangladeshi not-for-profit organisations, Nagorik Uddyog and Safety & Rights, and was previously on the Boards of The Resource Alliance (UK) and the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium (Philippines). He holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Lawrence University, USA and an MBA from Victoria University, Australia.

Saieed Bakth Mozumder
Director
Tea Estates, BRAC

Saieed Bakth Mozumder serves as the director of BRAC’s tea estates division. He joined James Finlay Limited while studying history at the University of Dhaka. Prior to joining BRAC in 2003, Mr Mozumder worked as assistant manager, divisional manager, and was subsequently promoted into the office of superintendent at James Finlay, Doloi and Noyapara Tea Companies incorporated in the UK. He was visiting superintendent and then the general manager in National Tea Company Limited.

In 1993, Mr Mozumder was appointed as general manager of Tea Holding of Transcom Group. He was also employed by HRC Group to develop two estates under tea, rubber and afforestation as general manager, and subsequently as executive director of plantation.

Mr Mozumder was the secretary of Balisera Planters’ Club, and represented the Bangladeshiyo Cha Shangshad on a variety of boards and committees. He was also the director of the board and executive committee of One Bank Limited, and a director in the board of National Tea Company Limited.

Shahriar Hoque
Director
Technology, BRAC

Shahriar Hoque leads the organisational Digital Transformation and ICT4D mandates with a strong resolve to create opportunities that empower people and communities. A seasoned Technologist, with 23 years of global experience, he specialises in governance, change management, transformational initiatives, and international project supervision in applied IT.

Prior to joining BRAC in 2016, he worked 17 years in various technical expertise and leadership capacities for the Federal Government of Canada, Nortel Networks & Bombardier Aerospace.

At BRAC, Mr Shahriar Hoque directs portfolios through which clients benefit from information communication and technology enabled services. He plays a vital role, from strategically designing programme digitalisation to up-keeping organisational development agenda and tech infrastructure. He oversees a Project Management Unit, and wide range of implementations like, Enterprise Resource Planning and Information Systems. Cumulatively these facilities contribute to the organisational preparedness for the VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) world.

Mr Shahriar Hoque was the recipient of several recognitions for contribution as a Canadian Public Servant. In 2002, 2006 and 2010, during his tenure with the Canada Revenue Agency he respectively received Recognition for Outstanding Work on Tax On Net Income, Recognising Excellence award for Two-Dimensional Bar Code Project, and Recognising Excellence award for Dedication & Contribution to the ITB Workplace, Health & Safety. He was then assigned to Shared Services Canada, a newly formed Government department, to streamline IT services and develop governance model for which in 2014 he received another recognition for Exceptional Contribution to the ETI Programme.

Mr Shahriar Hoque has done his Bachelors in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and MBA in Financial Services at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He is also a holder of Fellowship FICB (Fellow, Institute of Canadian Bankers), a prestigious accreditation which has been bestowed on over 10,000 leaders in the banking sector from Canadian Securities Institute – CSI. He was also named in the Dean's Honours List for remarkable performance towards the completion of Cégep – ‘Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel’, issued by Dawson College, Montreal, Canada.

Sheela R Rahman
Director
Legal and Compliance, BRAC

Sheela R Rahman is the director of Legal and Compliance at BRAC.

Sheela R Rahman is a lawyer who has practised and worked in Bangladesh since 1990, with rich experience as in-house counsel, litigator and trainer. She has expert legal and practical knowledge of banking, corporate finance, corporate and commercial matters, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance. Ms Rahman has also been senior counsel at a few law offices, including Rokanuddin Mahmud and Associates and Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed and Associates, and lastly built her own practice, Maxima.Legal. She has worked as a consultant to international development organisations on secured transactions and corporate governance, law reform proposals, training, and a team member for publications on SME governance and connection of best practices with corporate performance. Ms Rahman has also been an adviser to Teach for Bangladesh and Habitat for Humanity Bangladesh.

Ms Rahman holds an LL.M. degree from University College London and is a Barrister-at-Law, having been called to the Bar of England and Wales from Lincoln’s Inn in London. She is an Advocate, Appellate Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh.

Sonia Wallman
Director
Grants Management
Global Resource Mobilisation and Partnership(GRP)
BRAC and BRAC International

Sonia Wallman is the Director of Grants Management as part of the GRP team.

Prior to joining BRAC, Ms Wallman spent fifteen years with Save the Children within various grants and contract management capacities. She began as emergency management support following the 2004 Indonesian tsunami advising on the new and diverse emergency funding portfolio. After a few years of working with the Children in Emergencies and Crisis Department, she moved to the Regional Financial Controlling team as the Grants and Contracts Manager providing compliance support and contractual reviews and approvals for the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. Most recently, Ms Wallman held the position of Director of Strategic Portfolio and Awards Management, supporting 13 countries across the Middle East and Eastern European region, supporting ongoing and complex crises in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and the broader Mediterranean region. During her time as Director, she supported the growth of the regional annual operating budget from $48M to $250M. She led major projects including supporting the global restructuring and redesign of the award management scope inclusive of new business development, and led the embedding of that change in her region. She supported Country Offices to design and implement funding strategies to realise programmatic ambitions. She advised on donor compliance, business development, and contractual arrangements with local partners and vendors. She also possesses business writing and process management skills to build and manage consortia, and lead large and complex proposal development processes.

Prior to her tenure at Save the Children, Ms Wallman worked at CARE USA in the emergency unit and interned with the US State Department at their embassies in Morocco and Egypt within their political and economics bureaux respectively. She also interned with the World Food Program in Rome drafting content for its global gender policy.

Ms Wallman has a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies (major) and City and Regional Planning (minor) from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Master of Regional (Urban) Planning from Cornell University.

Syed Mazbahul Morshad
Chief Engineer
Construction and Maintenance Department, BRAC

Syed Mazbahul Morshad is the chief engineer at BRAC Construction and Maintenance department. As the head of the unit, Mr Morshad is responsible for the implementation of all construction projects. He has 25 years of expertise in supervising the engineering work of various projects, from cyclone shelters to pre-fabricated steel bridges.

Previously, Mr Morshad served as the general manager at Hamid Construction Ltd. Prior to this, he worked at BRAC as the assistant chief engineer, expanding on the construction of physical infrastructure of BRAC’s development activities throughout the country.

Mr Morshad completed his Bachelor’s of Science in civil engineering from CUET, and holds an MBA from BRAC University.