K M Ali Azam is the senior secretary of

Ministry of Public Administration The Ministry of Public Administration () (abbreviated as MoPa) is primarily responsible for management of public administration in Bangladesh. Present minister is Sheikh Hasina Wazed and Minister of State is Farhad Hossain. Present Senior secre ...

. He is the former secretary of Ministry of Industries and a director of

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Early life

Azam was born in 1953 in Udaipur village,

Mollahat Upazila Mollahat ( bn, মোল্লাহাট) is an upazila of Bagerhat District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. History Mollahat Thana was established in 1967 and was turned into an upazila in 1983. During the War of Liberation (1971) a ba ...

, Bagerhat District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. He completed his master's degree in economics from the University of Rajshahi.

Career

Azam joined Bangladesh Civil Service on 20 December 1989 as part of the administration cadre. Azam had served as the assistant commissioner in the Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong District. He was the assistant commissioner of Land in

Meherpur Sadar Upazila Meherpur Sadar ( bn, মেহেরপুর সদর) is an upazila of Meherpur District in the Division of Khulna Division, Khulna, Bangladesh. Meherpur is the smallest district of Bangladesh in the South-western part within the Khulna Division ...

. He was the upazila nirbahi officer of Satkhira Sadar Upazila in 2004. He was the district commissioner of Chapai Nawabganj District in 2010. He served as the deputy secretary in the

and the joint secretary in the

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. He was the director general of the Prime Minister's Office under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and project director of

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. Azam has also served as the divisional commissioner of Dhaka Division. He served as the returning officer for the

11th Jatiya Sangsad The Eleventh Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, একাদশ জাতীয় সংসদ, translit= ēkadasha jatīẏa saṅsada, lit=Eleventh National Parliament) was formed with the elected members of the 2018 Bangladesh general election, 11th Gen ...

in the Dhaka City Corporation area in 2018. In 2020, Azam was the secretary at the Ministry of Labour and Employment. Azam was appointed the secretary in the Ministry of Industries on 27 May 2020 replacing Md Abdul Halim. On 21 June 2020, Azam was appointed a non-executive director of British American Tobacco Bangladesh. On 23 March 2021, Azam was the special guest in the United Nations Capital Development Fund's program titled ''“Leaving No Micro Merchants Behind in the Digital Era in Bangladesh”''. On 10 May 2021, Azam was appointed the senior secretary of the

. He is a syndicate member of

Khulna University of Engineering and Technology Khulna University of Engineering & Technology ( bn, খুলনা প্রকৌশল ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, ) commonly known as KUET (; bn, কুয়েট), formerly BIT, Khulna, is a ...

. He is a director of the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Azam, K M Ali Living people 1953 births People from Bagerhat District Bangladeshi civil servants Bangladeshi economists University of Rajshahi alumni