Recently, the board of directors of Bank Asia Limited in its 500th board meeting re-elected Helal Ahmed Chowdhury as an Independent Director for another term of three years which has also received the approval of regulators.
Chowdhury is a veteran banker with around four and half decades of banking experience.
He started his career at Pubali Bank in 1977 as a Class-I Officer through Superior Service Examination and was promoted in course to MD and CEO (2006-2014) in the same bank which is a rare event and record.
Under his dynamic leadership, Pubali Bank got transformed into an institutional role model of government turned private commercial bank and won the prestigious award “Best Financial Institution” of the country given by DHL and The Daily Star in 2009.
He is engaged with a number of social organizations and trade bodies at different capacities and works as a resource person in different training/seminars both at home and abroad and contributed articles in different newspapers.