Chartered Accountant, is a career Civil Servant-turned Banker. Born in 1930, he grew up in British India and in 1946 went to Calcutta for higher studies. With the partition of India in 1947, he moved to Chittagong where he graduated from Govt. College of Commerce, qualified as a chartered accountant and also came out successful in the central superior service examination. He joined the Civil Service Academy in Lahore in 1952. In 1957-58, he received his Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University.
He is known for serving as the first Finance Secretary of Bangladesh, as well as being Bangladesh’s representative to the World Bank and later with the United Nations. Currently he is Chairman of IIDFC, a prominent financial institution in Bangladesh to promote and finance investments in infrastructure and industrial sector.
He currently resides in Gulshan in Dhaka with his wife, Zohra. They just celebrated 60 years of marriage on October 14, 2018. He has two daughters, five grandchildren and one great granddaughter.