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BSEC appoints independent directors for DSE, CSE

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Business Report :

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday appointed two independent directors to the board of Dhaka Stock Exchange, and seven independent directors to the board of Chittagong Stock Exchange.

The two independent directors appointed to the DSE board are AF Nesaruddin, senior partner of Hoda Vasi Chowdhury & Co, and Syeda Zakeerin Bakht Nasir, chief consultant and CEO at ZN Consultants.

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Earlier, on September 1, the BSEC appointed seven independent directors to the DSE’s board, but KAM Majedur Rahman and Helal Uddin, two of the appointed directors, decided not to join the board.

The seven new independent directors appointed to the CSE board are Alamgir Morshed, executive director and CEO of Infrastructure Development Company Limited, Md Saiful Islam, professor of Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, AKM Habibur Rahman, former managing director of Teletalk Bangladesh, Mahmud Hassan, associate professor of Marketing and International Business at the North South University, M Zulfiquar Hussain, CEO and lead consultant, Grow n Excel, Naznin Sultana, director of finance of Asian University for Women, and Farida Yasmin, deputy secretary of the Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance.

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