The government has appointed Dr. Md. Khairuzzaman Mozumder as new secretary of the Finance Division who will take charge from incumbent secretary of the Ministry of Finance Fatima Yasmin.

Currently, Khairuzzaman is serving as the secretary of Energy and Mineral Resources Division.  Fatima has already been appointed as the Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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This decision was announced in a notification of the Ministry of Public Administration on Wednesday.

Fatima is going to retire from government service from August 28 as per her wish. The Ministry of Public Administration has issued another notification separately in this regard.

Fatima is the first Bangladeshi to be appointed to this post. She will be the vice president for 'Sectors and Themes' of the global lending agency for three years.

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Khairuzzaman served as additional secretary in the Macroeconomics Division of the Finance Divion prior to joinin energy division. He started career as officer of 11th BCS administration cadre in 1993. Later, he served as BCS (Customs and Excise) Officer in different posts in National Board of Revenue.

Khairuzzaman holds a PhD in government (Political Economy) from the University of Essex, UK. Apart from this, he completed his MA degree in Political Economy from McGill University, Canada. Prior to this, he obtained an MSS degree from Dhaka University.

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