Prof. Abu Hena Reza Hasan

Independent Director

Professor Abu Hena Reza Hasan was appointed as an Independent Director of the Board of Directors of the Bank on August 27, 2024, through the reconstitution of the Board of Directors by Bangladesh Bank.

Professor Hasan is a senior professor and former chairman of the Department of International Business at the University of Dhaka. Moreover, he holds the position of director at the University of Dhaka’s Center for Policy Research on Business and Development (CPRBD). In his early years of professional life, he held positions as an executive in a multinational company and an international NGO. He works as a consultant for the Department for International Development (DFID), UK, GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit or German Corporation for Technical Cooperation), Germany; Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan, Ministry of Health & Family Planning, Government of Bangladesh; and SME Foundation, Bangladesh. His professional career spans over thirty-three years.

Professor Hasan obtained academic degrees from the University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), the University of Strathclyde (UK), the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). He is a well-known researcher who has written twenty- nine papers in academic journals and edited books both at home and abroad. He attended many seminars and workshops at home and abroad.

Professor Abu Hena Reza Hasan was born in a respectable Muslim family in Sirajganj, Bangladesh. He is married and has a daughter.