Bank Asia gets new independent director

Ashraful Haq Chowdhury has recently been elected as independent director of Bank Asia.

He is the managing director of Star Infrastructure Development Consortium Ltd. He also served in top management positions at Grameen Telecom, Telekom Malaysia Bangladesh and Bharti Airtel for 21 years.

He has also served Commonwealth Secretariat, London as trade adviser.

Chowdhury obtained honours and master's degrees in economics from the University of Chittagong.