Register of Interests
Board of Trustees & Executive Director
1. M. Hafizuddin Khan - Trustee Name M. Hafizuddin Khan
Date on which initial statement lodged July 2, 2005, updated: 10 January 11, 2011
Remunerated Affiliation No
Non-Remunerated Affiliation President: Bangladesh retired Government Employees welfare Association; Vice President & Trustee: Anjuman Mofidul Islam; Vice chairman, Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Shujan); Director, MIDAS Financing Ltd; Member, NGO Foundation; Trustee: Grameen Fund; Member, Board of Trustees & Treasurer, Action Aid Bangladesh; Adviser, DORP - Development Organization for the Rural Poor.
Significant (>5%) Ownership or None Controlling Position
Any Companies, Organizations or None Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets Public Office Former Adviser to the Caretaker Government; Retired Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh.
Other (Spouse) Wife: Razia Hafiz (Home-maker)
2. Prof Abdullah Abu Sayeed - Trustee Name Prof. Abdullah Abu Sayeed
Date on which initial statement lodged 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation Project Director, Book-Reading Habit Component (Bishwa Shahityo Kendra), Secondary Education Quality & Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP) implemented by the Ministry of Education.
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Bishwa Shahityo Kendra); Chairperson, Action Aid Bangladesh, Member, Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA)
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Share of parental property (plot of land) in 245 Controlling Position North Shahjahanpur, Dhaka.
Any Companies, Organizations or No Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets
Public Office Retired Professor, Dhaka College, Dhaka.
Other (Spouse) Wife: Rowshan Ara Sayeed (home-maker)
3. Advocate Sultana Kamal - Trustee
Name Advocate Sultana Kamal
Date on which initial statement lodged September 11, 2005, updated 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation Executive Director, Ain O Salish Kendra
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Member, ASK; Trustee, Protichi Trust (Bangladesh); Member, APWLD; Director, Women living under muslin house; Life Member, BFPA; Life Member, Shilpokola Academy; Executive Member, Nijera Kori; Member. ANCVAW and many others social organizations, networks; Trustee, Bangladesh Freedom Foundation.
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Sharer of a Residential House in Dhanmondi, Controlling Position Dhaka. Any Companies, Organizations or None Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets Public Office Former Adviser to the Caretaker Government.
Other (Spouse) Shupriyo Chakravarty, Proprietor: Popular Watch Co. Sylhet; Proprietor: Fast Food Shop; Sharer: Surma kushiara Pvt. Ltd; Share-holder: One Bank limited.
4. Samson H. Chowdhury - Trustee
Name Samson H. Chowdhury
Date on which initial statement July 20,2005, updated: 10 January 11, 2011 lodged Remunerated Affiliation No
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Chairman: Central Depository Bangladesh Limited. Advisor: Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries. Chairman: Mutual Trust Bank Ltd Significant (>5%) Ownership or Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Controlling Position Square Textiles Ltd. Square Toiletries Ltd. Square Hospitals Ltd. Square Consumer Products Ltd. Square Informaticx Ltd. Mutual Trust Bank Ltd House in Baridhara, one apartment each in Banani & Gulshan Any Companies, Organizations Square Pharmaceuticals Ltd. or Governments in which the Square Textiles Ltd. member have more than 5% of Square Toiletries Ltd. their total assets Square Hospitals Ltd. Square Consumer Products Ltd. Square Informaticx Ltd. Mutual Trust Bank Ltd Public Office None
Other (Spouse) Spouse: Anita Chowdhury, Chairperson: Square Securities Management Ltd. International Needs
5. Prof. Khan Sarwar Murshid - Trustee
Name Prof. Khan Sarwar Murshid
Date on which initial statement lodged 27 October 2005, updated: 10 January 11, 2011
Remunerated Affiliation No
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Board Member, Nagorik Udyog (A citizens Initiatives)
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Controlling Part owner of a residential house in Dhanmondi, Position Dhaka, Owner of a commercial house in Motijheel C/A, Dhaka
Any Companies, Organizations or Governments in which the member have No more than 5% of their total assets Public Office Retired of Professor of English, University of Dhaka. Former Vice Chancellor, University of Rajshahi, Ambassador of Bangladesh to Poland in mid-seventies, Assistant Secretary General, The Commonwealth.
Other (Spouse) Wife: Late Nurjahan Murshid, Social Worker, Writer and Editor.
6. Prof. Muzaffer Ahmad - Trustee
Name Muzaffer Ahmad
Date on which initial statement lodged July 20, 2005, updated 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation No
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Life Member: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh; Life Member & former President: Bangladesh Economic Association; Life Member: Bangla Academy; Life Member & past President: Dhaka University Alumni Association; Life Member & Chair: Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon; Member: Board of Governors, BIISS; Chairman, Shishaoner Jonno Nagorik; President, Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan (BAPA)
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Controlling Position Inheritor of Paternal Property in Dhanmondi R.A and a plot of land in Savar (not in possession)
Any Companies, Organizations or None Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets Public Office Former member of Council of Advisors to the President of Bangladesh; former member of various Government Commissions and Committees; Retired Professor of Institute of Business Studies, University of Dhaka.
Other (Spouse) Wife: Roushan Jahan, Freelance Researcher.
7. Ms. Sayyada Ruhi Ghuznavi - Trustee
Name Ms. Sayyada Ruhi Ghuznavi
Date on which initial statement lodged 27 October, 2005, updated 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation Managing Director, Aranya, a small scale private sector company
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Member of the Boards of:
Social Marketing Company, Naripakhkho, A Women’s Rights Organization, and National Crafts Commission of Bangladesh
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Controlling Aranya Position
Any Companies, Organizations or Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets No
Public Office
No
Other (Spouse) Husband: F.K. Ghuznavi, Former Chairman of ICI Bangladesh.
8. Tawfique Nawaz - Trustee
Name Tawfique Nawaz
Date on which initial statement lodged 27 October 2005, updated 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation No
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Member, Supreme Court Bar Association Life Member, Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs,
Member, International Law Association Member, Oxbridge Society of Bangladesh Chair, Great Heritage Trust Member, Private Family Trust
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Controlling Position Juries Council, 100% equity Two mortgage flats in Dhaka city
Any Companies, Organizations or No Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets
Public Office No
Other (Spouse) Wife: Dipu Moni, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh; Registered Medical Practitioner, Public Health Practitioner, Pupil-Advocate. Member, Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs Bangladesh Awami League.
9. Mahfuz Anam - Trustee
Name Mahfuz Anam
Date on which initial statement lodged July 21, 2005, updated 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation Editor & Publisher, The Daily Star
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Member of the Board of Health 21, Member of the Board of Trustees, Bangladesh Freedom Foundation
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Shareholder of Media World, The owning Controlling Position company of the Daily Star Newspaper; Media Star, the owning company of the Daily Prothom Alo and Transcraft Printers Ltd. Owner of an Apartment in Gulshan, and inherited property in Dhanmondi.
Any Companies, Organizations or None Governments in which the member has more than 5% of their total assets
Public Office None
Other (Spouse) Spouse: Executive Director, Manusher Jonno Foundation, A civil society organization devoted to promoting human rights and good governance.
10. Selina Hossain - Trustee Name Selina Hossain
Date on which initial statement lodged 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation No
Non-Remunerated Affiliation Honorary Executive Director, Fareea Lara Foundation; Chair, Brotee; Trustee, Acid Survivor’s Foundation; Research Initiatives Bangladesh (RIB); PRIP Trust; UNESO Executive Board Member (nominated by Government of Bangladesh); Fellow Bangla Academy (as recipient of Bangla Academy Award).
Significant (>5%) Ownership or Share of family property in 16/A, Road 2, Controlling Position Shyamoli and Aldoba, Rajendrapur, Mirzapur (used as Maternity & Child Care project of Fareea Lara Foundation) Any Companies, Organizations or No Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets
Public Office Retired Director General, Bangla Academy; Honorary Member, Bangladesh Human Rights Commission.
Other (Spouse) Anwar Hossain Khan (Retired General Manager Biman Bangladesh Airlines, and Honorary Vice President Fareea Lara Foundation)
11. Executive Director - Iftekharuzzaman - Ex-officio Member of the Board Name Iftekharuzzaman (Iftekhar Zaman)
Date on which initial statement lodged July 1, 2005, updated 10 January 2011
Remunerated Affiliation Executive Director, Transparency International Bangladesh Non-Remunerated Affiliation Member, International Board, Transparency International, Member Board of Trustees, Bangladesh Freedom Foundation; Member, Board of Trustees, Member Board of Trustees, Manusher Jonno Foundation; Member Board of Trustees, Bishwo Shahityo Kendro; Chairperson, Acid Survivor’s Foundation. Significant (>5%) Ownership or Owner of a Residential apartment in Road 121, Controlling Position House 5, Apt 1/B, Gulshan, Dhaka; and inherited home in village: Gohatta, P.O. Baranagar, Sonargaon. Any Companies, Organizations or No Governments in which the member have more than 5% of their total assets
Public Office No
Other (Spouse) Wife: Jharna Zaman, (Registered medical practitioner, not in employment or practice)