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Board of Trustees

The CPD was established by a Deed of Trust on 16 November 1993 by nine settlers who became the founding members of the Board of Trustees of the CPD. Subsequently the Trustees invited Professor M Yunus, Managing Director, Grameen Bank Ltd., Mr Fakhruddin Ahmed, Director, BILIA and former Foreign Secretary and former Finance Minister Mr M Syeduzzaman, to become members of the Board of Trustees and all of them agreed to serve as members of the Board of Trustees.

The members of the Board of Trustees are: - 

 

 


Professor Rehman Sobhan  
Chairman
, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)
Former Member, Advisory Council of the Caretaker Government (1991), and former Director General Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).

 

 

Mr Syed Humayun Kabir
Treasurer, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD)

Chairman, Renata Ltd. and former President, Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, former Chairman, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB)

 

 

 

Mr Fazle Hasan Abed
Founder and Chairman, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)

 

 

 

Mr Quazi Faruque Ahmed
Executive Director, Proshika Manobik Unnayan Kendra and President, Association of Development Agencies of Bangladesh (ADAB)

 

 

 

Ms Khushi Kabir
Coordinator, Nijera Kori and former President, Association of Development Agencies of Bangladesh (ADAB)

 

 

 

Mr M Syeduzzaman
Chairman, Bank Asia, former Finance Secretary and former Minister for Finance, Government of Bangladesh

 

 

 

Professor Mohammad Yunus
Managing Director, Grameen Bank Ltd and former Member, Advisory Council of the Caretaker Government
(1996)

 

 

 

Mr Nurul Haq
Former Director (Dialogue & Administration), CPD and former Member, Bangladesh Planning Commission

 

 

Mr Syed Manzur Elahi
Founder Chairman, Apex Tannery, Pioneer Insurance Co. Ltd., Grey Advertising Bangladesh Ltd., Mutual Trust Bank Ltd. and Chairman, Holiday Publications Ltd.

 

 

 


Ms Laila Rahman Kabir
Member of " The Association of Tea Planters of Bangladesh", former President, Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and former President, Bangladesh Employers Association.
 

 

 

 

 

Professor Anisuzzaman
Professor, Department of Bengali, University of Dhaka, and former President, Bangla Academy

 

 

 

Dr Debapriya Bhattacharya
Member-Secretary, Board of Trustees
Executive Director, Centre for Policy Dialogue, and former Senior Research Fellow, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS)