AmCham elects new president

Md Nurul Islam, regional senior vice president and head of Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar for MetLife, and Showkat Ali Sarkar, managing director of DuPont Bangladesh, have been elected president and vice-president respectively of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh for 2015-2016.

Shafiqul Azim, general manager of R-Pac (Bangladesh), was elected treasurer, the chamber said in a statement yesterday.

Islam joined American Life Insurance Company in Bangladesh in 1981, before which he briefly worked at Fisons (Bangladesh) Ltd, subsidiary of a British pharmaceutical company, it said.

He also completed the 'MetLife Enterprise Leadership Programme' from Harvard Business School in 2014. He is a fellow of the Life Management Institute of Life Office Management Association in Atlanta, USA.

He is currently also a member of the committee of Bangladesh Employers' Federation.