Lord Karan Faridoon Bilimoria of Chelsea, one of the UK's leading entrepreneurs, will arrive in Bangladesh on October 17 on a five-day visit.

Bilimoria – a current member of the House of Lords, chancellor of the University of Birmingham, and former president of the Confederation of British Industry – will visit Bangladesh at the invitation of UK-based Curry Life Media Group.

He will inaugurate the week-long "British Curry Festival" at InterContinental Dhaka on October 20.

During his five-day visit, Bilimoria will meet with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, Prime Minister's Private Industry and Investment Adviser Salman F Rahman, and the leaders of British Business Group, and Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries.

Bilimoria will also visit Dhaka University and the Liberation War Museum. He will go to Sylhet as well.

On September 16, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina invited UK businesses to avail investment opportunities in Bangladesh during her stay in London to attend the late Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, en route to the 77th UNGA in New York.

She made the call during her meeting with Bilimoria.

Bilimoria, the first South Asian of Parsi background to sit in the House of Lords, briefed the prime minister about his work in support of the UK's curry industry. Also, he expressed interest in forging a higher education partnership with Bangladesh in his capacity as the chancellor of Birmingham University. 

Hasina paid tribute to the contributions of Lord Bilimoria's late father General Faridoon Bilimoria of the Indian army during Bangladesh's War of Independence in 1971.