Parveen Mahmud, a Bangladeshi businesswoman andsocial worker, received "Top 50" women Global Awards Sri Lanka-2023 under thecategory of Leadership in Finance and Accounting.
She is the only female leader from Bangladesh who received this prestigious award.
In presence of Dinesh Gunawardena, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr SulochonaSegera, founding chairperson of Women in Management (Srilanka, Maldives, UAE & Canada) and Managing Director of Institute of Women in
Management, handed over the award to Parveen Mahmud.
The award giving ceremony was held yesterday at Shangri-la Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka where Minister of Gender, Family and Social Services of government of Sri Lanka Aishath Mohamed Didi and Federal Minister for Early Childhood Education and Minister for Youth in the Labour, Government of Australia Dr Anne Aly, MP, among others, were present, said a press release on Sunday.
Women in Management (WIM) in collaboration with Women in Work, a partnershipbetween the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the government ofAustralia, this year has selected the Top50 Female Professionals among the500 nominations from 33 countries for the Women Global Awards 2023- Colombo,Sri Lanka.
In recognition of remarkable achievements and dedication to the profession in and the beyond boarder, a panel of Judges has selected Parveen Mahmud who is identified as one of the Top50 women leaders in the world, for their hard work, perseverance, and commitment to the excellence in work which have made a positive impact on various sectors of the economy of the home country and the lives of millions of women.
Parveen Mahmud is the first female President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) in 2011, which reckons her as the first female Board Member and the first female President among professional bodies of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), apex accounting professional body of SAARC.
She was the Founding Chairperson of CA Female Forum- Women in Leadership Committee, ICAB and the Vice Chairperson of the Women in Leadership Committeeof SAFA till 2019.
She is the Chairperson of RDRS Bangladesh and sits in numerous Boards. She was also the Chairperson of Shasha Denims Ltd., Underprivileged Children Education Program (UCEP)- Bangladesh, MIDAS (Micro Industries Development Assistance and Services) and Acid Survivor's Foundation.
