M Hafizuddin Khan is a Bangladeshi career bureaucrat, 6th comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh, and former adviser to the caretaker government heading the Ministries of

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, Jute and Textiles.

Early life

Khan completed his B.A. and M.A. in political science from

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in 1961. He obtained a diploma in Development Finance from the

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Career

Khan joined the Central Civil Service of Pakistan in 1964 as an Audit and Accounts cadre. He served in the railway Accounts Service and Defence Finance Department. He was placed in the senior service pool of the Government of Bangladesh in 1977. He served as a director at

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and

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. He was the chairman of

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. He also did a stint in the Prime Minister's Secretariat. He was the 6th

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of Bangladesh. He retired in 1999 from Government service. He served as an adviser in the caretaker government, Latifur Rahman Cabinet. He was in charge of the Ministries of Finance, Planning, Jute, and Textiles with the rank of minister. He is the chairperson of the Board of Trustees of

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. He is the vice-president of Anjuman Mofidul Islam. He is the founder-chairman of a civil society organization named Citizens for Good Governance (SHUJAN). He is a director of MIDAS Financing Limited.

References

Living people People from Sirajganj District Politicians from Rajshahi Division Advisers of caretaker governments of Bangladesh Bangladeshi economists Bangladeshi social workers University of Dhaka alumni Alumni of the University of Birmingham Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bangladesh-bio-stub