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Ahsan H Mansur to be BB governor

Published : Wednesday, 14 August, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 120
Business Correspondent
The government has decided to make Ahsan H Mansur the new governor of the Bangladesh Bank (BB). 

Confirming the matter to The Daily Observer, Mansur said he had spoken to the finance adviser about this posting. He will succeed Abdur Rouf Talukder. 

The age limit for the post of governor of the Bangladesh Bank (BB) is likely to be removed soon, high-level sources of the financial institution division informed Daily Observer.

Previously, the age limit was 67 years. 

Dr Mansur, 72, started his career as a lecturer, Department of Economics, Dhaka University in 1976. 

He left for Canada for higher studies in economics in the same year, according to the website of the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh.

As a graduate student and research assistant, he was also offering regular economics courses at the undergraduate level at the University of Western Ontario, Canada (1978-81). 

He then joined the International Monetary Fund under its Economist Programme in 1981, and thereafter completed his PhD in Economics (on general equilibrium analysis) from the University of Western Ontario in 1982.

During his long career at the IMF, Dr Mansur worked in Middle Eastern, Asian, African and Central American countries.

He worked in important functional departments (Fiscal Affairs and Policy Review and Development departments) and area departments (Middle East and Central Asia and Asian departments) of the IMF. 

He also served as the IMF Senior Resident Representative to Pakistan during 1998-01 and as the fiscal adviser to the minister of finance, Government of Bangladesh (1989-91). 

During his assignment in Bangladesh, Dr Mansur was primarily involved in the successful introduction of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Bangladesh in 1991. 

Most recently, he served as the Division Chief of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Division and was the IMF Mission Chief for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman. 

After taking early retirement from the IMF, with a view to establishing an institute aimed at policy analysis, in coordination with other professionals, Dr Mansur joined the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh as its founder director and executive director.

Dr Mansur has published extensively in various prestigious journals and has been a prolific author.



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