Md. Nojibur Rahman

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Md. Nojibur Rahman
Born31 December 1960

Md. Nojibur Rahman is a retired civil servant and former chairman of the National Board of Revenue. [1] He is the chairman of Capital Market Stabilization Fund. [2] [3] He is the former Principal Secretary of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. [4]

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Early life

Rahman was born on 31 December 1960 in Sunamganj District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. [5] Rahman completed his Bachelor of Social Science and Master of Social Science at the University of Dhaka in 1982 and 1984 respectively. [6] [5] He completed a second Masters at Australian National University in Development Administration in 1999. [6] [5]

Career

Rahman joined the admin cadre of the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1982. [6]

From 1991 to 1994, Rahman served at the Embassy of Bangladesh in Vietnam and Myanmar. [6]

From 2009 to 2012, Rahman was the Economic Advisor at the Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations. [6]

Rahman was the secretary of the Statistics and Informatics Division at the Ministry of Planning from 2012 to 2014. [6] [7] He was the secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change. [6]

From 12 January 2015 to 31 December 2017, Rahman was the chairman of the National Board of Revenue. [8] He was succeeded by Md. Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan. [8] He accused businessmen in Bangladesh of dodging taxes using bonded warehouses. [9] He was appointed Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. [10] [11] He replaced Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury. [10]

Rahman is an advisory board member of Cosmos Foundation. [5] He was arrested after the fall of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government in mass protests. [12] Talebur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, could not tell the media under which case or charge he had been detained. [12] He and Md Aminul Islam Khan, former senior secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, were sent to jail in a case filed over the death of Shamim, a leader of Jubo Dal, in a clash between police and supporters of Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Dhaka on 28 October 2023. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "NBR chief Md Nojibur Rahman set to become new principal secretary: Source". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to CMSF". cmsfbd.org. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  3. ↑ "'Long-term financing, vibrant bond market needed for infrastructure development'". The Daily Star. 2021-10-31. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  4. ↑ "6 proposals from Bangladesh for effective multilateral trading system". The Daily Star. 2019-04-19. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Md. Nojibur Rahman". Cosmos Foundation. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Welcome to CMSF". cmsfbd.org. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  7. ↑ Ahmed, Gazi Towhid (2013-12-27). "Survey studies time spent on paid or unpaid work". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  8. 1 2 "National Board of Revenue (NBR), Bangladesh". nbr.gov.bd. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
  9. ↑ "NBR chief accuses businessmen of misusing bonded warehousing". The Daily Star. 2015-08-24. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  10. 1 2 "NBR Chairman Md Nojibur Rahman likely to be new principal secretary to Prime Minister". Daily Sun. 28 December 2017. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  11. ↑ "NBR chairman Nojibur Rahman made PM's principal Secy". Prothomalo. 2017-12-31. Retrieved 2024-03-18.
  12. 1 2 "Police arrest Hasina's principal secretary Nojibur Rahman". The Business Standard. 2024-10-07. Retrieved 2024-10-07.
  13. ↑ "Ex-secretaries Nazibur, Aminul sent to jail in Jubo Dal leader murder case". The Business Standard. 2024-10-10. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
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