Govt extends tenure of Agrani Bank chairman

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Business Desk :
The government has decided to reappoint Zayed Bakht as the Chairman of Agrani Bank Limited Bank for the next three years.
His appointment as chairman of the bank has been made for the third time in a row since 2014.
The post of the chairman of the Board of directors of the bank remained vacant since December 03 last.
The reappointment was approved by the Financial Institutions Department of the Finance Ministry on Monday, said circulars issued by the Finance Ministry.
The order signed by Md Jehad Uddin, a deputy secretary at the Financial Institutions Division was issued on December 07.
Before joining the bank as director and chairman, Dr Bakht had served as the director research at the state-owned BIDS.
The research Director of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Bakht has an MSc in economics from Islamabad (now Quaid-e-Azam) University, Pakistan, and a PhD in economics from Cornell University of USA, according to the statement.
His principal areas of research include industrial policy and SME and private sector development.
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