Kedar Lele, chief executive officer and managing director of Unilever Bangladesh, has been appointed as the new chairman of the local arm of the multinational fast-moving consumer goods company. 

Lele, also the vice-president of the Foreign Investors' Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), was unanimously elected the chairman at the 180th meeting of the board of directors of Unilever Bangladesh that was held on 25 August.

He succeeds Kamran Bakr, who served as chairman of Unilever Bangladesh since 2012.

Lele joined Unilever Bangladesh as its chief operating officer on 1 June 2017 and subsequently was appointed as its MD on 1 January 2018.

He will continue to be both the chairman and MD of the company.