BSEC gets first female commissioner

Prof. Dr. Rumana Islam has joined the securities regulator as its first female commissioner.

Dr. Islam on Sunday joined the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) for a period of four years through a gazette notification issued by the financial institutions division of the ministry of finance.

Following her appointment, four of the five-member commission are from University of Dhaka.

The commission is comprised of BSEC chairman Prof. Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam and four commissioners Dr. Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed, Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Md. Abdul Halim and Dr. Rumana Islam.

The newly-appointed commissioner Dr. Islam is a Professor of Law at University of Dhaka. She joined Dhaka University as a faculty in 2008 as an Assistant Professor.

She has acted as the Assistant Director of Research (Law) (part-time) in Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA), the leading think tank of law in the country from September, 2015 to September 2019.

Dr. Islam was nominated as a Panel Arbitrator designated by the Government of Bangladesh to the World Bank's International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in April 2021 for a term of six years.

She completed her LLB (hons) and LL.M from University of Dhaka with first classes in both.

She earned another LL.M (specialization in commercial law) from University of Cambridge, UK with a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship in 2006 and obtained her doctoral degree from University of Warwick in 2015 with Commonwealth Scholarship.

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