ICSB gets new CEO

Md Zakir Hossain has joined the Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB) as the Secretary and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Before that, he was Registrar (Additional Secretary) of Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms (RJSC), said ICSB in a statement on Wednesday.

Zakir is a member of the Bangladesh Civil Service 1984 batch. He is an accomplished, creative results-oriented and decisive top-level bureaucrat possessing multifaceted 34 years of service experience in government processes, business improvement, power and energy, financial management, health-related initiatives and a proven ability to re-energise and restructure organisations and develop strategies.

He is also adept at forging relationships with key government, partners, stakeholders and clients. In his long and illustrious career, Zakir Hossain has also served as Additional Secretary of Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Division, Joint Secretary, Financial Management and Audit Wing, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Component Coordinator/Joint Secretary, Deepening MTBF and Strengthening Financial Accountability (DMTBF) Project, Ministry of Finance, Deputy Secretary of Economic Relations Division (ERD). He also worked in various pre-audit and post-audit offices.

Apart from training in various training institutes in Bangladesh, he also received various training, including Improving The Quality of Health Services, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA (2013), Health Policy Development, National Institute of Public Health, Tokyo, (2013), Managing At The Top-2 (MATT) UK Programme, University of Wolverhampton, Telford (2012), Post graduate diploma on Financial Management from Maastricht School of Management (MSM), Netherlands (2008), etc.