The government has appointed Khondaker Muzammel Huq chairman of Grameen Bank, a spokesperson of the bank said yesterday.
He worked for Grameen Bank as a general manager and director for research, training, planning and special programmes between 1982 and 2003, said Jannat-E-Quanine, a general manager of the bank.
A former research scholar at Oxford University, Muzammel also worked with the Development Bank of France, Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Central Bank of Nepal as adviser on micro-credit and small enterprise development.
He is now managing director of Enterprise Development Company Ltd, a private sector financial organisation.