Senior BB official elected AFI body’s vice-chair

Md Anwarul Islam

The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) has elected Bangladesh Bank General Manager Md Anwarul Islam as vice-chair of its Gender Inclusive Finance Committee (GIFC). 

The AFI promotes and develops evidence-based policy solutions in order to improve the lives of the poor by way of bringing unbanked people under financial institutions.

The AFI's members are central banks and other financial regulatory institutions from more than 80 emerging and developing countries, where the majority of the world's unbanked reside.  Islam has been serving as general manager of the Financial Inclusion Department of the central bank for nearly one and a half years.

He is also co-chair of the financial inclusion working group of the Organisation of Islamic Conference.

Over his 27-year-long career with Bangladesh Bank, Islam has contributed to the banking regulation and policy regime in several departments.

The AFI also elected Elsie Addo Awadzi, the second deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana, as chair of the GIFC.  The duo, appointed through an election last week, will serve the GIFC for the next two years.