Professor Dr. Md. Salim Uddin; FCA, FCMA, MBA, CPFA(UK), CIFRS(UK), PhD
Chairman, Board of Directors
By a Government order from Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, eminent academician and renowned accountant Professor Dr. Md. Salim Uddin; FCA, FCMA has been reappointed as the Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation. Professor Dr. Md. Salim Uddin; FCA, FCMA joined as Chairman and Director of the Board of Directors of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation on 18/03/2018.
Dr. Md. Salim Uddin is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA), Fellow Cost & Management Accountant (FCMA), and Certified Public Finance Accountant (CPFA). As Professional Accountant, he is a 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 and Associate Professor and Professor in 1996, 2002 and 2010 respectively. In 1999 he went to Belgium to study MBA at the University of Brussels and obtained his MBA degree with a grade of distinction. He did his PhD on “Application of International Financial Reporting Standards-IFRS in Bangladesh”.
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. He was the Vice President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh-ICAB.
At present, he is Chairman of Bangladesh House Building Finance Corporation-BHBFC; Chairman, Executive Committee of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd-IBBL, Chairman, Bureau of Business Research, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Chittagong; and Member of Finance Committee, University of Chittagong.
He has been working as Financial Consultant/Adviser in different organizations since 1993 and gathered vast experience 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 a 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 and jointly organized by the Ministry of Commerce, Bangladesh and ICAEW, UK.
He also participated in The Program on Consultancy Training (PCT) in Japan from 1 March to 14 March 2018 (Two weeks) organized and partly financed by AOTS Chubu Office (CKC).
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, Canada, UK, Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
Planning and Implementation: Cabinet Division, A2I, BCC, DoICT and BASIS