The government on Saturday appointed Rumee A Hossain as chairman of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines and reconstituted its board with inclusion of senior officials and private sector representatives.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism issued a notification in this regard on Saturday. Rumee A Hossain is sponsor director and chairman of the Board Executive Committee of Bank Asia.
The reconstituted board also includes Finance Division Secretary Dr Md Khairuzzaman Mazumder, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Fahmida Akhter, Assistant Chief of Air Staff Air Vice Marshal Javed Tanveer Khan and Engineer-in-Chief of Bangladesh Army Major General Md Hasan Uz Zaman.
Other directors are: BNP International Affairs Secretary Barrister Nasir Uddin Ahmed Asim, Policy Exchange Bangladesh's Chairman and CEO M Masrur Reaz, United Commercial Bank's Chairman Sharif Zahir, DBL Group's Vice-Chairman Mohammad Abdur Rahim, ICMAB's Additional Managing Director Md Mamunur Rashid, Barrister Khairul Alam Chowdhury, Dhaka University Marketing Department's Professor Abu Naser Ahmed Ishtiaque and Biman's Managing Director and CEO Kaiser Sohel Ahmed as ex-officio member.
