Dr Ahmad Kaikaus, senior secretary of the Power Division, has been appointed as the principal secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The Public Administration Ministry made the announcement the on Sunday.
Ahmad will succeed the current Principal Secretary Md Nojibur Rahman. Nojibur will go into retirement from Tuesday.
The new principal secretary is the 1986 batch of Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS). He has been working at the Power Division as secretary since 2017.
Ahmad did his PhD from the University of Texas in the US after completing a master’s in development economics at Williams College in Massachusetts.
