Parveen Mahmud has been elected president of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for 2011 in its council meeting yesterday.
Mahmud is the first woman president for ICAB since its establishment in 1973, said a statement.
Former ICAB vice president in 2008, she is the deputy managing director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation.
A working group member of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, she started her career with BRAC and later work with different national and international development partners.
The ICAB meeting also elected Md Abdus Salam, Md Shahadat Hossain and Nasim Anwar as vice presidents for the same tenure.
Hossain is a member of the council. Salam is fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Managers of Bangladesh and Anwar is the finance director of TK Group of Industries.
Hossain qualified as chartered accountant from ICAB in 1993 while Salam did so in 1989.
