BB governor hires adviser

Bangladesh Bank has appointed Faisal Ahmed as a senior economic adviser to its governor, to support the financial sector development and reform agenda, the central bank said in a statement yesterday.

Ahmed served as the International Monetary Fund's resident representative in Cambodia during 2011-15 and worked in the monetary and capital markets department prior to the new appointment, it said.

Ahmed was a core member of the IMF's emerging market surveillance team and led technical assistance missions on reserve and debt management.

Ahmed holds a PhD and an MA in economics from the University of Minnesota, an MFin in quantitative finance from Princeton University and is a CFA charterholder, the BB said.

Prior to joining the IMF, he worked as an actuary for a global reinsurance company for four years, as a research economist for the Central Bank of Turkey and as a visiting scholar at the US Federal Reserve Bank, according to the statement.

He has also taught at the Royal School of Adminis-tration in Cambodia, the University of Minnesota, and at the South East Asian Central Banks Research and Training Centre.