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Abul Kasem Khan new BUILD Chairperson


Bangladeshpost
Published : 06 Feb 2020 08:15 PM | Updated : 05 Sep 2020 06:55 AM

Abul Kasem Khan, former President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has been nominated by DCCI to take over as the Chairperson of the Trustee Board of Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD) for the year 2020-21. He succeeds Mahbubul Alam, President of The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) who was the Chairperson of BUILD for 2018-19.

Abul Kasem Khan is the Director of AK Khan & Co Ltd, and Managing Director of AK Khan Telecom Ltd. Asif Ibrahim, formerChairperson of BUILD and Syed Mohammad Tanvir, Director, CCCI have been nominated as new Trustee Board Members of BUILD respectively from Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) and Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI).

In addition to the new trustees, the Trustee Board for 2020 includes Shams Mahmud, President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI), Nihad Kabir, President of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), Mahbubul Alam, President of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), Farooq Ahmed, Secretary General of MCCI, Md. Joynal Abdin, Secretary of DCCI and Engr. Mohd. Faruque, Secretary of CCCI. Ferdaus Ara Begum, CEO of BUILD is in the Trustee Board as the Member Secretary.

BUILD is a Public Private Dialogue Platform supported by Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) officially providing secretarial support to the Private Sector Development Policy Coordination Committee headed by the Principal Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) since 2011.

BUILD features public private dialogue on five thematic areas – Tax, SMEs, Financial Sector and Trade and Investment, Sustainability and Green Growth. It undertakes much of the analysis and advocacy to support the dialogue process, and assist in ensuring that BUILD develops specific, measurable and results-based recommendations for the Government to implement.