Arif Al Islam elected ACCA Global Council Member

Md Arif Al Islam, Managing Director and CEO of Summit Communications Ltd., has been elected a Global Council Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) recently, says press release.

He became the first Bangladeshi to hold the position in the top global body for professional accountants. ACCA is the largest and fastest-growing accountancy body in the world based in the UK with 241,000 qualified members and 542,000 students worldwide.

Mr. Arif became a qualified ACCA in 1999 and since then, he has been playing an ACCA brand ambassadorship role. He was the founding chair of the Members Advisory Committee in Bangladesh.

Mr. Arif said "Bangladesh is on the roadmap of becoming a middle-income country and we need to represent ourselves in the global arena on different platforms. In the corporate field, ACCAs are very well placed and they hold the commitment and capability to contribute to the development of businesses in all sectors."

He started off his career 28 years ago in public practice in the UK and later became a senior manager at KPMG.