Dr. Syed Abdulla Al Mamun, FCMA, CSRS
Director, NWPGCL
Chief Executive Officer, The Bangladesh Rating Agency Limited (A Dun & Bradstreet SAME Company)

Dr. Syed Abdulla Al Mamun FCMA CSRS, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Bangladesh Rating Agency Limited (a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet SAME), joined NWPGCL as a Director on 21 January 2020. He is the Convenor of the Audit & Finance Committee of the Company. He is also the Independent Director of FAS Finance & Investment Limited.

Dr. Mamun earned his PhD in Finance from School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand. He completed BBA (Accounting) and MBA (Strategic Management Accounting) from Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Dhaka. Dr. Mamun is a certified professional Cost & Management Accountant (CMA) and Fellow member (FCMA) of Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB), a statutory professional accounting body in Bangladesh under ministry of Commerce and also a Certified Sustainable Reporting Specialist (CSRS), Institute of Certified Sustainability Practitioners (ICSP), Indonesia.

As an inquisitive finance professional, he has more than 17 years of professional experience in Business Strategy, Financial Analysis, Industry Analysis and Business Research Areas. Earlier, he worked in Credit Rating information and Services Limited (CRISL) more than a decade with multiple roles including Deputy CEO, industry analyst, member of rating committee and Director of CRISL School of Finance. In addition, he worked as consultant of different projects including International Financial Corporation (IFC), World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), SNV Netherland, UNCDF. Dr. Mamun also teaches Finance & Accounting Courses in different reputed local and international institutions including Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand; Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar as Visiting Professor; University of Utara Malaysia (UUM), Malaysia; Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka; North South University (NSU); Brac Business School and Islami Bank Training & Research Academy of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBBL).

His research-interest focuses on Corporate Governance, Strategic Finance, Fintech, Intellectual Capital, Family Business, Business Strategy, Special Economic Zone and Sustainability. He has more than 35 research articles published in peer reviewed national and international journals. His book titled "Internal Corporate Governance in an Emerging Economy: Impact on the Performance of Financial Institutions in Bangladesh" published from Germany. Dr. Mamun is also engaged in professional community leadership and currently is the Council Member of National Council of ICMAB. He is also a Life Member AIT Alumni, Dhaka University Accounting Alumni and Bangladesh Accounting Association (BAA).