The government has appointed Swapan Kumar Bala as a member of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission for a two-year term.

The public administration ministry yesterday issued a notice announcing the contractual appointment of Bala, the immediate past managing director of Dhaka Stock Exchange.

Bala had served the premier bourse for a three-year term that ended April 12.

Bala, a professor of accounting and information system at Dhaka University, will fill the vacancy created by Arif Khan who stepped down as a commissioner of the BSEC citing health reasons in January.