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Nihad Kabir is a Bangladeshi woman

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, lawyer and educator. She is well known for being one of the prominent women lawyers in Bangladesh. She is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh who also served as the President of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka from 2017 to 2022. In 2018, she was re-elected as the President of MCCI for 2019. In 2021, Nihad Kabir's name was revealed in the

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leak as a beneficiary of some secret offshore entity.

Career

Nihad obtained her BA degree in Law from the

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in 1988. She also joined the Bar of England and Wales in 1988. After returning to Bangladesh from England, she joined the Chambers of Syed Ishtiaq Ahmad and Associates and currently works as a senior partner. She was enrolled as an advocate in 1990 and was enrolled as the advocate of the High Court Division of Bangladesh in 1991. In the same year, she completed her

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from the Cambridge University. She has been working as a Director at various institutes such as Kaderpur Tea, Brac Bank, Apex Footwear and Palli Karma-Sahayak. Most notably, she also worked as counsel in the office of the General Counsel of the

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headquarters in

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from July 1996 to February 2000. Nihad is a Director of Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute.

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Career

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