Bank Asia directors re-elect MA Baqui Khalily

Prof MA Baqui Khalily has been re-elected as the chairman of the Risk Management Committee of Bank Asia Limited at a meeting of the Board of Directors held recently.

He is one of the Independent Directors of the Bank. Prof Khalily joined as a faculty member at the Department of Finance of the University of Dhaka in 1975 after completing his Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) and Master of Commerce in Finance from the same institution. He also obtained his MSc and PhD degrees with a major in Finance and Development in 1987 and 1991, respectively from Ohio State University in the USA.

After a successful teaching career of 37 years, Professor Khalily retired from the University of Dhaka in 2012. He is a renowned academician of the country, an eminent economist and a finance scholar of national and international repute. He has a large number of publications especially on rural finance, financial inclusion, SME development and microfinance in prominent national and international journals.

He also authored and co-authored many books and research monographs. Other than having a prominent teaching career, Prof Khalily also held many important administrative positions including Executive Director of the Institute of Microfinance, Acting Vice-Chancellor and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University, Chairman of the Department of Finance, University of Dhaka, Director of Dhaka Stock Exchange Limited, only to name a few. During his long career, he visited many countries around the globe for professional purposes. Professor Khalily currently teaches at the Department of Business Administration, University of Asia Pacific.