CHITTAGONG, Feb 6: Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Mahbubul Alam has been elected trustee board Chairman of the Business Initiative Leading Development (BUILD).
He has replaced Nihad Kabir, President of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The BUILD is a public-private dialogue platform that works closely with and gives necessary advice to the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO) to formulate business policy guidelines and necessary renovations and easing and uplift of business environment for the country's private sector development through five working committees on business and investment, financial sector, tax, small and medium enterprises (SME), sustainable and green growth etc.
Apart from the CCCI, other members of the trustee board are from the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) and Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), a statement of the CCCI said.
Mahbubul Alam is the former vice-president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), incumbent director of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, vice-president of the Confederation of Eastern Chambers of Commerce and Industry, governing board member of the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) under the PMO, director of the International Chamber of Commerce Bangladesh (ICCB), executive board member of the Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute and also working as consul general of Mali.
Representatives from different business societies and organisations in Chittagong have congratulated him on his being elected chairman of the BUILD. Alam is a post-graduate from Chittagong University and a successful trader and industrialist. He was social welfare secretary of Chittagong University Central Students Union (CUCSU) in 1979-80.
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