Bangladesh Bank appoints new executive director

The Bangladesh Bank has appointed a new executive director in its Barisal office, according to a circular issued on Tuesday. SM Rabiul Hassan, the new executive editor, was previously working as general manager in the central bank's Department Off-Site Supervision. The circular, issued by the central bank's Human Resources Department 1, said Rabiul had been promoted to the position of executive director and transferred to the bank's Barisal office. The incumbent executive director in Barisal office, Md Sohrawardy, has been transferred to the headquarters in Dhaka, it further added. Rabiul joined the central bank in 1988. In his career in the Bangladesh Bank, he has worked in the Governor's Secretariat, Department of Banking Inspection, Department of Banking Regulation and Policy, Human Resources Department and the central bank's Bogra and Sylhet offices.