BRAC MANAGEMENT DIRECTORS
Shameran Abed
Director
Microfinance
BRAC and BRAC International
Abdul
Bayes
Director
Research and Evaluation
Division
Tahsinah Ahmed
Director
Skills
Development
Munmun Chowdhury
Chief People Officer
BRAC International
Ahmed Najmul
Hussain
Director
Administration
Road Safety
Sayeda Tahya Hossain
Chief People
Officer
Human Resources Division
Learning Division
Saieed Bakth
Mozumder
Director
Tea
Estates
Dr Kaosar Afsana
Director
Health, Nutrition and Population
Programme
Jalaluddin
Ahmed
Director
Asia Region
BRAC International
Anna Minj
Director
Community
Empowerment
Integrated Development
Gender Justice & Diversity
Faustina Pereira
Director
Human
Rights and Legal
Aid Services
KAM Morshed
Director
Advocacy for Social Change
Information
and Communication
Technology
Partnership Strengthening Unit
Md Akramul Islam
Director
Tuberculosis
and Malaria Control
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Safiqul Islam
Director
Education
Rachel
Kabir
Director
Chairperson’s Office
Taufiqur Rahman
Director
BRAC
Dairy and Food
Enterprises
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BRAC ORGANOGRAM
As
of June 2016
DIRECTORS
Lamia Rashid
Director
Africa Region
BRAC International
Nanda
Dulal Saha
Director
Internal Audit
BRAC and BRAC International
Munshi Sulaiman
Director
Research
Director
BRAC International
Saif Md Imran Siddique
Director
Finance
BRAC
International
Gawher Nayeem Wahra
Director
Disaster Management and
Climate Change
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Adv Syeda Rizwana Hasan
Lawyer Supreme Court of Bangladesh
Chief
Executive
Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers’
Association
Ms Hasan is a lawyer with the
Supreme
Court of Bangladesh. She is working for the
cause of environment as the chief executive
of
the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers’
Association (BELA). Ms Hasan did her
masters and graduation
in law from the
University of Dhaka. She is a recipient of
the Goldman Environmental Prize and was
recognised
by TIME magazine as one of the
40 Environmental Heroes of the World. Ms
Hasan was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay
Award
in 2012.
Mr Adeeb H Khan
Chartered Accountant
Vice President Institute of Chartered
Accountants
of Bangladesh
Mr Khan is a chartered accountant
and the senior partner of Rahman
Rahman Huq
(Member Firm of KPMG
International). He is a council member
(elected position) of the Institute of
Chartered
Accountants of Bangladesh
and currently its vice president. He is also
a committee member (elected position)
of
the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
and Industry (MCCI), the oldest and one
of the most
prestigious trade chambers of
Bangladesh. Mr Khan’s past directorships
include Biman Bangladesh
Airlines, the
national Flag carrier of Bangladesh.
Syed S Kaiser Kabir
CEO and Managing Director
Renata
Limited
Mr Kabir is CEO and managing director of
Renata Limited. He is also the chairman of
Renata
Agro Industries Limited, Purnava
Limited and Renata Oncology Limited.
Mr Kabir is vice chairperson of
the Sajida
Foundation and is also on the Board of
Directors of the Global Alliance for
Improved
Nutrition. Mr Kabir started his
career as a research officer at the Institute
of Economics and Statistics,
University
of Oxford. He moved on to serve as
a consultant at the World Bank from
1991-1993.
He was appointed executive
director of the Sajida Foundation in 1996,
and later joined Renata Agro Industries
Limited
as managing director from 1997
to 2004.
Martha Alter Chen
Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard
Kennedy School and
International Coordinator, WIEGO
Dr Chen is a lecturer in public policy
at
the Harvard Kennedy School, an
affiliated professor at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, and
international
coordinator of Women in
Informal Employment: Globalising and
Organising (WIEGO), a global researchpolicy-
action
network that seeks to
improve the status of the working
poor, especially women, in the informal
economy.
An experienced development
practitioner and scholar, her areas of
specialisation are employment, poverty
and
gender. Dr Chen has spent two
decades in Bangladesh and India
working for BRAC and Oxfam America.
Luva
Nahid Choudhury
Director General
Bengal Foundation
Ms Choudhury is an architect who was
a
part of the Bangladesh Government
service for 10 years and currently heads an
architectural practice in
Dhaka. She
is the director general of Bengal
Foundation, a trust that supports and
promotes
the arts in Bangladesh. She also
heads ICE Media and Bengal Publications,
both leading publishing houses.
Rokia
Afzal Rahman
Vice President, International Chamber of
Commerce Bangladesh
Ms Rahman currently
chairs Airlinks
Group of Companies and RR Group of
Companies. She is the chair of
Mediaworld
Ltd, and a director of
Mediastar and ABC Radio. As chair of
MIDAS Financing Ltd, Ms Rahman has
initiated
loan facilities to several thousand
women. She was a director of Reliance
Insurance and is the former
president of
the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
and Industries. Ms Rahman is a board
member
of Asian University for Women.
BRAC GOVERNING BODY
GENERAL BODY
The general body of BRAC consists
of 33 members. As per the Memorandum of Association and Rules and Regulations of BRAC, the
general body elects the
governing body.
The Annual General Meeting of BRAC was held in June 2015, in which the general body approved the
audited financial statements for the
year ended December 31, 2014, approved the annual budget for 2016, and approved
the appointment of external auditors for the year
ended December 31, 2015.
GOVERNING BODY
The
governing body of BRAC consists of 10 members. Distinguished professionals, activists and entrepreneurs of excellent repute
have
been elected to the governing body, bringing their diverse skills and experience to the governance of BRAC.
Sir
Fazle Hasan Abed
Founder and Chairperson, BRAC
Sir Fazle is recognised by Ashoka
as one of the
‘global greats’ and
is a founding member of its
prestigious Global Academy for
Social
Entrepreneurship. He was
also appointed Knight
Commander of the Most
Distinguished Order of
St Michael
and St George (KCMG) by the
British Crown in 2009, in
recognition of his services
to
reducing poverty in Bangladesh
and internationally. Sir Fazle has
received numerous national
and
international awards for his
achievements in leading BRAC,
including the World Food Prize
(2015),
the Spanish Order of Civil
Merit (2014) and the inaugural
WISE Prize for Education (2011),
the
David Rockefeller Bridging
Leadership Award (2008), the
Conrad N Hilton Humanitarian
Prize (2008),
the inaugural Clinton
Global Citizen Award (2007) and
the Henry R Kravis Prize in
Leadership
(2007).
Ahmed Mushtaque Raza
Chowdhury
Vice Chairperson, BRAC
Dr Chowdhury is also
a
professor of population and
family health at Columbia
University in New York. He
previously
served as senior
adviser at the Rockefeller
Foundation, based in Bangkok,
Thailand. He was also
the
founding dean of the James P
Grant School of Public Health
in Dhaka and served as a
research
associate at Harvard
University’s Center for
Population and Development
Studies. He is
the co-recipient
of the Innovator of the Year
2006 award from the Marriott
School of Management,
Brigham
Young University in
the USA.
Tahrunnesa Abdullah
Social Scientist and
Gender Specialist
Ms
Abdullah is an advisor to
Democracywatch and
also serves as the chairperson
of Gono Bishwabidyalay,
ASA,
Ain o Salish Kendra and South
Asia Partnership-Bangladesh.
She started her career at the
Comilla
Academy for Rural
Development and headed the
women’s education and home
development programme.
She
oversaw the development
of the National Plan of Action
for Children 1997-2002, and
has served
as chair of
Bangladesh Shishu Academy
and Bangladesh Jatiya Mohila
Sangstha.
Latifur
Rahman
Chairman and CEO
Transcom Group
Mr Latifur Rahman is also the
chairman of Nestlé
Bangladesh,
Holcim Cement (Bangladesh), and
National Housing Finance and
Investments. Mr Rahman
holds the
position of vice president of
International Chamber of
Commerce in Bangladesh. He
has
also been elected as a member of
the executive board of International
Chamber of Commerce
in Paris.
Formerly the president of the
Metropolitan Chamber of
Commerce, he is an erstwhile
president
of Bangladesh Employers’
Federation. Mr Rahman was
chairman of the Trade Body
Reforms
Committee and member of
Bangladesh Better Business Forum.
He was member of the executive
board
of Bangladesh Bank (Central
Bank). Mr Rahman is an Honouree
of the Oslo Business for Peace
Award
in 2012, and was named
Business Executive of the Year in
2001 by the American Chamber in
Bangladesh.
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Debapriya Bhattacharya
Macro Economist and
Public Policy
Analyst
Dr Bhattacharya, a macro-economist and
public policy analyst, is currently a distinguished
fellow
at the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Dhaka.
He is a former ambassador and permanent
representative of
Bangladesh to the World Trade
Organization offices in Geneva and Vienna, and
the special advisor on least-developed
countries
(LDCs) to the secretary general of the
UN Conference on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD). He is associated
with a number of
leading institutions, networks and editorial
boards of reputed journals. Dr Bhattacharya
studied
in Dhaka, Moscow and Oxford and has
held a number of visiting positions, including at
the Centre for Global
Development, Washington
DC. He is the chair of two global initiatives, LDC
IV Monitor and Southern Voices
on Post-MDGs.
Sylvia Borren
Executive Director, Greenpeace Netherlands
Ms Borren was a director
of Oxfam
Novib from 1994 to 2008. She is a
former co-chair of the Global Call to
Action against
Poverty and chair of its
Dutch chapter, EEN. She is a member
and former co-chair of the
Worldconnectors,
a Dutch transformative
multi-stakeholder think tank, and is on
the Board of the Forest Stewardship
Council
Netherlands. She was previously
a member of the Dutch Government’s
Advisory Council on International
Affairs
and also chaired Quality Educators for
All. She was a part of the International
Women’s
Commission for a Just and
Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace.
She was also on the board of governors
of
the Altrecht Mental Health Institute.
Irene Z Khan
Director General, International Development
Law
Organisation
Ms Khan is Director-General of the
International Development Law
Organization.
She was Secretary General
of Amnesty International and worked for
the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
for
21 years. Ms Khan is a member of the
World Bank Advisory Council on Gender
and Development. She sits on
the boards
of several international human rights and
development organisations. She
received
the Sydney Peace Prize in
2006 for her work to end violence against
women and girls. Her book, The Unheard
Truth:
Poverty and Human Rights, has
been translated into seven languages.
Shabana Azmi
Actor and Social
Activist
Ms Azmi is an internationally-acclaimed
actress who was a member of the Indian
Parliament
and a UN Goodwill Ambassador.
She is also a vocal and committed social
activist, undertaking campaigns
and
making public statements on various
issues, particularly social justice and the
rights of
women. She is a leading advocate
of AIDS awareness in India. Ms Azmi is a
visiting professor at Ann Arbor,
Michigan
and has addressed several universities
including Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley,
MIT,
University of Chicago, and University
of London.
Quais Shafiq ul Hassan
Managing Director
Echo
Sourcing Ltd UK and
Echotex Ltd Bangladesh
Mr Hassan is the managing director of Echo
Sourcing
Ltd UK and Echotex Ltd Bangladesh.
Echotex has received Bangladesh’s National
Environmental Award,
Metropolitan Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka’s
Environmental Award and J Sainsbury plc’s
Corporate
Social Responsibility Award in
2010. Echotex was also awarded Best
Clothing Supplier in 2011 as well as
Best
Clothing Supplier and Supplier of the Year in
2012 by J Sainsbury plc. He is the co-founder
of
Children’s Hope, an NGO that works to
educate slum children in Dhaka.
STICHTING BRAC INTERNATIONAL
GOVERNING BOARD
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed Founder and Chairperson, BRAC
Ahmed Mushtaque Raza Chowdhury Vice
Chairperson, BRAC
Dr Muhammad Musa
Executive Director, BRAC
Dr Musa has an extensive background
in
leading humanitarian, social development,
and public health organisations in
international,
cross-cultural settings. A
medical doctor and a public health specialist,
he has a specialised training
in maternal and
child nutrition, and disaster management.
Before joining BRAC, he worked for 32 years
with
CARE International as one of its senior
international management professionals.
Twenty of those years
were spent working in
Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand,
India, Bangladesh and the Asia region.
He
has long experience in strategic leadership,
governing board management, executivelevel
management
of large-scale operations,
humanitarian and social development
programme management, and organisational
change
management.
Parveen Mahmud
Managing Director
Grameen Telecom Trust
Over the course
of her professional career, Ms
Mahmud has invested substantial time in
working with national and international
development
agencies. She is a chartered
accountant and was the first woman to be a
council member (2007) and president
(2011)
of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of
Bangladesh. She was also the first female
board
member of the South Asian Federation
of Accountants. She was the deputy managing
director of Palli Karma
Sahayak Foundation.
She also served as the chairperson of the
Acid Survivors’ Foundation.
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