Mr. Jamaluddin Ahmed, Ph.D, FCA has been elected President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for the year 2010 by the Council-ICAB in its meeting held on 29 December 2009. At the same meeting, Mr. Md. Abdus Salam FCA, Mr. Md. Shahjahan Majumder FCA and Mr. Nasim Anwar FCA have been elected Vice Presidents of the Institute for the same tenure.

Dr. Jamaluddin Ahmed is an accounting graduate with honours followed by Masters from Dhaka University, a PhD (1996) from the Cardiff Business School, under the University of Wales United Kingdom as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and is a council member of ICAB for the last nine years. Dr Jamal is currently Technical Advisor of South Asian Federation of Accountants which is an apex body of SAARC. Dr Jamal is two times’ elected Treasurer of Bangladesh Economic Association and co-author of the theme paper titled “From Cash to Accrual Accounting-Reforming Government Accounting in Bangladesh” with Professor Abul Barkat-General Secretary of Bangladesh Economic Association. Dr Jamal is co-researcher with Professor Abul Barkat in Rural Electrification and Regional Energy Co-operation.

Dr Jamal is a Partner of Hoda Vasi Chowdhury & Co, Charterted Accountants, which is the associate firm in Bangladesh of Deloitte & Touche. The firm is the market leader in the profession and central bank of the country rated as number one accounting firm. Dr. Jamal is engaged in assignments in Financial, Banking and Energy Sector industries. Dr Jamal worked as country specialist in Migrant Remittance Management. He is involved in DFID funded Cheque Automation, Automated Clearing System and in the development National Payment System in Bangladesh. Dr Jamal developed his specialization in Energy Pricing, and Energy Accounting and has professional training in managing the regulatory commission function amongst numerous other issues. Dr Jamal is currently appointed Director of newly Corporatized Janata Bank Limited and Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited.

Dr Jamal completed his PhD thesis (1996) on the Adverse Effect of Currency Devaluation on the Foreign Loan user Companies of Bangladesh. Over his professional career, Dr. Jamal has written copious publications and conducted numerous research papers on various aspects. Dr Jamal’s publications include, Banking Reform in Bangladesh: Comparison with Best Practices, Fiscal Policy for Economic Growth, From Cash to Accrual Accounting-Reforming Government Accounting in Bangladesh, Management of Migrant Remittance-What Shapes and What Shakes, Attracting Foreign Direct Investment-What Shapes and What Shakes, Political Economy of Privatization in Bangladesh-Comparison of Regimes, Political Economy of Currency Devaluation-A Comparative Study, Challenging Corruption- Professional Accountants at the Crossroad. Dr Jamal is the writer of Evaluation Report on the Rupali Bank for preparing information memorandum for the prospective bidders. Recently, he completed his research paper on mobile banking for speedy remittance to rural Bangladesh, Cost and Pricing of Remittance-A Comparative Study. Moreover, Dr Jamal conducted a Study (2008) on the Mobile Banking in Afghanistan for the Micro Finance Transaction funded by the USAID. Dr Jamal presented paper on Ethics in Accounting Profession at Jai Pur India (2004), Lahore (2005) and Karachi (2006) Pakistan, and Dhaka Bangladesh (2007) under the SAFA banner. As well as being the vice president of ICAB, he is also a member of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the British Accounting Association (BAA) and the Bangladesh Economic Association (BEA). His accolades and reputation has also earned him the position of Executive Secretary of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) in 2002. Bangladesh Awami League nominated Dr Jamal in the National Election of 2008 as Member of Parliament from Noakhali-2 Constituency.