Md Salim Uddin
CHAIRMAN

Md Salim Uddin is the director of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee. Mr. Uddin is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), Fellow Cost & Management Accountant (FCMA), and Certified Public Finance Accountant (CPFA). As Professional Accountant, he is fellow member of three professional accounting bodies which are: (i) the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh-ICAB (ii) the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh-ICMAB and (iii) the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy-CIPFA, UK. He obtained his Honours in Commerce and Master in Accounting from the University of Chittagong. He was all through a brilliant student and stood First in the First class of M. Com Final examination. He joined in the department of Accounting of the same University in 1994 as a lecturer and has been promoted to the posts of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor in 1996, 2002 and 2010 respectively. He did his PhD on “Application of International Financial Reporting Standards-IFRS in Bangladesh”.

In 1999 he went to Belgium to study MBA at the University of Brussels and obtained his MBA degree with the grade of distinction. Before Joining the University of Chittagong, he joined the Government College for a very short time after qualifying Bangladesh Civil Service-BCS Examination in 1993. Now he is a faculty member, Professor in the Department of Accounting, University of Chittagong, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

He was an Independent Director of The Chittagong Stock Exchange-CSE appointed by the Government. He was also an Independent Director of Premier Bank Ltd and Director of Rupali Investment Ltd. Lastly, he was a Director of Rupali Bank Ltd- a nationalized commercial bank appointed by the Government. At present, he is Chairman of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation-BHBFC.

He has been working as Financial Consultant/Adviser in the different organisations since 1993 and gathered vast experiences in the field of designing accounting system, auditing and assurance practices, project management, project financing through debt and equity, business negotiation and regulatory compliance etc,. Mr. Salim has keen interest in theoretical and applied research. His main areas of interest are International Accounting, IAS/IFRS, Forensic Accounting, Creative Accounting and Capital Market. He has more than sixty research publications at home and abroad in various fields of Accounting and Finance. He also actively participated and presented valuable papers in many national and international seminars, training programs and workshops. He attended an extensive training program on IFRS and ISA during July-August, 2008 in the UK funded by World Bank jointly organized by Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh and ICAEW, UK.

He worked and completed a project on E-Brokerage in Belgium and gathered experience in negotiating international business and finalising contract. For the above purposes he widely visited USA, UK, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Nepal.