M. Aslam Alam
M. Aslam Alam is a retired Bangladeshi civil servant and chairman of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority of Bangladesh.[1][2] He is the former rector of the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre.[1] He was the secretary of the Bank and Financial Institutions Division.[3]
Early life
Alam did his bachelor's and master's in accounting at the University of Dhaka.[4] He did another master's in international relations at the International University of Japan.[4] He did his PhD at the University of New South Wales in sociology.[4]
Career
In October 2012, Alam was appointed secretary of the Financial Institutions Division replacing Md. Shafiqur Rahman Patwary.[5] He was the secretary of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief.[5] He dissolved the board of directors of BASIC Bank Limited over loan and financial irregularities.[6] He attended the plenary session of the Financial Action Task Force in Paris.[7] He was removed from his post and made an officer on special duty following the Bangladesh Bank hacking in an attempt to steal one billion USD.[8][9] The Federal Bureau of Investigation suspected it was the North Korean government.[10]
Alam served from 4 May 2017 to 28 July 2019 as the rector of the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre.[11] He had served as the Director General of the Prime Minister's Office.[4]
Alam was the chairman of the Bangladesh Institute for Information Literacy and Sustainable Development.[4]
Alam was appointed chairman of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority of Bangladesh on 9 September 2024 following the resignation of Mohammad Jainul Bari.[12]
In July 2025, Alam's allotment of a flat in the Dhanmondi Housing Project was cancelled by the government of Bangladesh.[13] After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, a murder case was filed against him by Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician Mohammad Zaman Hossain Khan over the death of a protestor in July 2024.[14]
Bibliography
- Insights from Developing Countries (Routledge, 2020), coedited with Dilara Begum, and Fakrul Alam.[15]
References
- 1 2 "Aslam Alam becomes new chairman of Idra". The Daily Star. 2024-09-10. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ "Six insurers fined Tk 37 lakh for breaching rules". The Daily Star. 2025-02-04. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ "Hackers loot $0.25m from Sonali Bank". The Daily Star. 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Dr M Aslam Alam" (PDF). The Energy and Resources Institute. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
- 1 2 "Ghulam Hussain new NBR chairman". The Daily Star. 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ "Board dissolved". The Daily Star. 2014-07-07. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ "Bangladesh out of FATF grey list". The Daily Star. 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ "BB governor quits over cyber heist". The Daily Star. 2016-03-16. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ "Dr. M Aslam Alam made new IDRA Chairman | The Asian Age Online, Bangladesh". The Asian Age. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ Corkery, Michael; Goldstein, Matthew (22 March 2017). "North Korea Said to Be Target of Inquiry Over $81 Million Cyberheist (Published 2017)". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Former Rectors". old.bpatc.org.bd. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ↑ "M Aslam Alam new chair of IDRA". The Daily Star. 2024-09-09. Retrieved 2025-03-17.
- ↑ "Govt cancels allocation of 12 flats to ex-secretaries, judges in Dhanmondi". New Age. 8 July 2025. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
- ↑ Rahman, Arifur (2024-11-11). "53 former secretaries made accused in attempt to a murder case". Prothomalo. Retrieved 2026-04-07.
- ↑ "An essential read on knowledge management". The Daily Star. 2021-07-08. Retrieved 2025-03-17.