Mohammad Tareque is a former senior secretary of the Ministry of Finance and former Alternate Director of the World Bank.[1][2] He is the director of the Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management.[1]
Early life
Tareque was born in Bagerhat District.[3] His brothers were poet Mohammad Rafiq and Professor Mohammad Naser of the University of Rajshahi.[3] He did his bachelor's degree and masters at the University of Dhaka.[4] He did another masters in political economy and his PhD at Boston University.[4]
Career
Tareque worked as an Micro-economic Analysis Specialist at the Asian Development Bank.[4] He was the director of the Prime Minister's Office for five years.[4]
On 22 January 2007, Tareque was appointed the Finance Secretary of Bangladesh replacing Siddiqur Rahman Chowdhury.[5][6] In 2008, he discussed offloading shares of three government entities, Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation, Bangladesh Railway, and Jamuna Bridge.[7] He had served under Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed.[8] He oversaw the spending of confiscated money from corruption suspects for the 100 Days Employment Generation programme.[9] He called for improvements in accounting in public sector to reduce wastage.[10] He oversaw probes against Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunus.[11] He served as the Finance Secretary till 31 July 2012 and was replaced by Fazle Kabir.[6]
Tareque is an independent director of Mutual Trust Bank.[12] He is the director of the Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management.[13] Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, he called for contraction of monetary and fiscal policies to reduce inflation.[14]
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