Helal Ahmed re-elected as independent director of Bank Asia

The Board of Directors of Bank Asia Limited recently re-elected Helal Ahmed Chowdhury as an independent director for another three-year term at its 500th board meeting.

Chowdhury is a veteran banker with around four and a half decades of banking experience, said a press release.

He started his career with Pubali Bank in 1977 as a Class-1 officer through superior service examination and was promoted in course to managing director and CEO (2006-2014) in the same bank, said a press release.

Under his dynamic leadership, Pubali Bank got transformed into an institutional role model of government turned private commercial bank and won the prestigious award "Best Financial Institution" of the country given by DHL and The Daily Star in 2009.

A former supernumerary professor at the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management, Chowdhury is the board member and vice-chairman of the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh and a board member of the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management.

He is a general body member of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation and a member of ICC Bangladesh Banking Commission.

He is engaged with a number of social organisations and trade bodies at different capacities and working as a resource person in different training or seminars at home and abroad.

Chowdhury is an MA and a Diplomaed Associate of IBB.