Ms. Nihad Kabir is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. She is the Senior Partner of Syed Ishtiaq Ahmad and Associates, a leading law firm of the country. She was the Vice President of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and is a Committee Member of the Bangladesh Employers’ Federation. She is a member of the Company Law Reform Committee and the World Bank South Asia Region’s Chief Economist’s Advisory Council; and was a member of the National Education Policy Committee of Bangladesh. Ms. Kabir is an Independent Director on the Board of BRAC Bank Limited, Apex Adelchi Footwear Limited, and Square Pharmaceuticals Limited. She is on the Board of, among others, South Asia Center for Policy Studies (SACEPS), Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL), Palli Karma-Sahayak Fundation (PKSF) and BKash.
Ms. Kabir was called to the Bar from Grays Inn in England. She has a B.A. (Hons) degree in law, an LLM and an MA degree, all from the University of Cambridge, England.