Short Bio: Mr. Md. Abul Kalam Azad is a Commissioner, Global Commission on BiodiverCities & and Special Envoy of CVF Presidency. He is also working as President of Bangladesh Scouts.
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Mr. Md. Abul Kalam Azad is a Commissioner, Global Commission on BiodiverCities and Special Envoy of CVF Presidency. Earlier, Mr. Azad worked as a Distinguished Fellow, Global Center on Adaption (GCA), and Country Coordination of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Bangladesh. He led the SDG planning and implementation for 4 years from Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh. Prior to this, Mr. Azad’s 34-year career in civil service was enriched with field-level administration, judicial service enhancement, and human resource development activities in different training institutes.
Mr. Azad coordinated all administrative, development and reform processes from Prime Minister’s Office as the Principal Secretary to Honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh and also as a Secretary. During his tenure in government services, Mr. Azad supported and guided implementation of 100 Economic Zones, dozens of Hi-tech Parks and several Public Private Partnership initiatives; supervised coordination of NGO activities in Bangladesh, and provided policy support for investment climate for Board of Investment and Bangladesh Investment Development Authority. In addition, Mr. Azad worked closely for ‘Digital Bangladesh’ and initiated several administrative reforms including Annual Performance Agreement (APA) system in Bangladesh Civil Service.
Mr. Azad also worked for a long time in management of foreign investment, foreign grant and bi-lateral and multilateral investment dialogues and also in infrastructure development of Power and Energy sector in Bangladesh. His teamwork and efforts enabled the country to increase its power generation capacity three times in five years.
Besides carrying out his civil service responsibilities, Mr. Azad gathered extensive experience working with private sector as Chairman and Director of several power and energy companies, banks and non-bank financial institutes, sports and aviation entities. A scout enthusiast from his childhood, Mr. Azas led 2.1 million scouts in Bangladesh Scouts as the President. He received many prestigious awards for his dedicate service in the country and abroad. He is a widely travelled person. round the globe. read more...
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বাংলাদেশের আগামীর সম্ভাবনা নিয়ে দীপ্ত টিভির বিশেষ টকশো "আগামীর বাংলাদেশ"
