Rumana Islam, first ever female commissioner of BSEC

Rumana Islam

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) gets Professor Rumana Islam as its first ever female commissioner today.

She joined in the post, which remained vacant for 13 months when Khondoker Kamaluzzaman left the office aas a commissioner in March 2021, according to the BSEC.

Rumana completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in law from the University of Dhaka, She obtained her second master's degree in International Commercial Law from the University of Cambridge, the UK in 2006.

Later in 2015, she accomplished her PhD in International Investment Law from the University of Warwick, UK.

Rumana joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Dhaka in 2008 as an assistant professor.