About

Mr. Mohammad Abul Kalam, ndc is the Director of Republic Insurance Company Limited nominated by Cove Investment Limited. He was born in 1963 in Chattogram. After graduating from the University of Chittagong with a bachelor and a master's degree in Accounting, he spent three years in the financial sector from 1988-1990 before joining the Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration) in 1991. Mr. Kalam held progressive positions in the civil service as Assistant Secretary, Senior Assistant Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Joint Secretary and Additional Secretary across diverse functional areas such as local government, finance and banking, overseas employment, commerce, education and shipping. Apart from obtaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Government Financial Management from the University of Ulster (now New University of Ulster), UK in 2000 and M. Sc. in Development Economics from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2008, he also attended the University of Bradford, UK, Deaking University, and Queensland University of Technology, Australia, for specialised training. Along his career, he participated in various training courses at numerous prestigious institutions at home and abroad, includingthe IMF Institute in Washington D.C. Mr. Kalam is an alumni of National Defense College (NDC). He served as Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commission (RRRC) under the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief during 2017-2019 and retired from government service as Additional Secretary, Ministry of Textiles and Jute.