A. B. Mirza Azizul Islam

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A. B. Mirza Azizul Islam
Advisor of the Caretaker Government
In office
2007–2008

A. B. Mirza Azizul Islam is a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and a former advisor of the Caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed. He was in charge of the finance ministry. [2] [3]

Biography

Islam was born to Mirza Abdur Rashid on 23 February 1941 in Durgapur village of what is now Sujanagar Upazila, Pabna District, Bangladesh. He was one of five brothers and three sisters. He graduated from Khalilpur High School and Dhaka College. He earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in economics at the University of Dhaka. Then he went to the United States, where he completed a second master's in development economics from Williams College and earned his PhD at Boston University. [4]

Islam is the former chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission. [5]

References

  1. Rahman, Syedur (2010). Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh (4th ed.). The Scarecrow Press. p. 345. ISBN   978-0-8108-6766-6.
  2. "BD will propose duty-free market access to BIMSTEC member countries". The Financial Express. 8 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  3. "As Bangladesh stock market soars, experts advise caution to investors". bdnews24.com. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  4. মির্জ্জা আজিজুল ইসলাম, শ্রদ্ধাস্পদেষু. Bonik Barta (in Bengali). 19 November 2023.
  5. "Market experts say good shares, IPOs must to keep market stable". bdnews24.com. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2017.