Dr Mushtaque elected DBH Chairman

The Board of Directors of DBH Finance PLC has elected Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury the Chairman of the company at its 149th meeting recently, says a press release.

Dr. Chowdhury was the Vice Chair of BRAC, the world's largest non-governmental organisation. He is a Professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University in New York.

During 2009-12, he worked as the Senior Adviser and Acting Managing Director for the Rockefeller Foundation. He also served as a MacArthur Fellow at Harvard University.

In recent times, he worked for the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, USA, as a Visiting Scholar. He was the founding Dean of the Brac University James P Grant School of Public Health.

Dr. Chowdhury holds a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA (honours) from the University of Dhaka.

Dr. Chowdhury is a founder of the Bangladesh Education Watch and Bangladesh Health Watch, two civil society watchdogs on education and health respectively. He is on the boards and committees of several organizations and initiatives, including BRAC University, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Social Marketing Company, London School of Economics and the Management Sciences for Health (MSH).

He has been a Director of DBH, nominated by BRAC, since February 2015.