Fatima Yasmin is a Bangladeshi bureaucrat and vice-president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She served as senior secretary of the Finance Division.[1] She is the first female Secretary of finance division in the history of Bangladesh. Before, promoted to senior secretary to the Finance division she has served as secretary at Economic Relations Division since Feb 23, 2020.[2] Prior to this position, she was Vice-Chairman, Export Promotion Bureau (EPB), Ministry of Commerce and Director General, Institute of Public Finance (IPF), Ministry of Finance.[3]
Early life and education
editYasmin joined Bangladesh civil service as a 9th batch officer of the administration cadre at 1991.[4] She completed her MBA from Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka in 1991 and a master’s in development economics from Australian National University, canberra in 1995[4]
Career
editYasmin worked in different capacities for agriculture, women and children affairs and defence ministry in her job life. She is experienced to work for Asian Development Bank, European Union, and the UN’s International Jute Organization. On 16 June 2022 she has been promoted to the rank of Senior Secretary. She is the Chairperson of Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Company.[5] She has been appointed as the first Bangladeshi vice-president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in June, 2023.[6] She is serving as Vice-President for sectors, themes at ADB since August, 2023.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Finance Division gets first female secretary". The Business Standard. 2022-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- ^ "Fatima Yasmin, Secretary of Economic Relations Division (ERD) and Manmohan Parkash, Country Director of Asian Development Bank, exchanging documents after signing a loan agreement at a ceremony in the capital on Monday". The New Nation. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- ^ "Bangladesh appoints first female finance secretary". The Daily Star. 2022-06-16. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- ^ a b "Fatima Yasmin becomes first female secretary of Finance Division". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- ^ "New chairman of IIFC". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2022-06-18.
- ^ "Khairuzzaman made new finance secretary". The Daily Star. 2023-08-23. Retrieved 2023-08-23.
- ^ "ADB appoints Fatima Yasmin as Vice-President for sectors, themes". The Business Standard. 2023-06-28. Retrieved 2023-08-26.