Ambassador Mr. Anwarul Bar Chowdhury (Retd.)
Independent Director & Vice Chairman
Ambassador Mr. Anwarul Bar Chowdhury (Retd.) was appointed as an Independent Director of GSP Finance Company (Bangladesh) Limited in its 240th BOD Meeting held on October 29, 2022. Mr. Chowdhury was born in 1946. He completed his Masters in Economics from University of Dhaka and also earned a Master degree from University of California at Berkely, USA. A former career diplomat, Mr. Anwarul Bar Chowdhury has served in the Bangladesh Ministries of Defense, Commerce and Foreign Affairs in different capacities.
He was the honorable counselor of the Bangladesh Embassy of Warsaw from 1989 to 1993. Before his retirement, Mr. Chowdhury was the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Italy with concurrent accreditation to Greece, Albenia, Serbia, Permanent Representative to UN Agencies in Rome.
He was also the Member of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) and vice chairman of Export Promotion Bureau of Bangladesh, the secretary of Ministry of Establishment and the Ministry of Planning and a Member of Planning Commission of Bangladesh. Mr. Chowdhury has also a career of teaching in many reputed Colleges and Universities of Bangladesh. After his retirement, Ambassador Mr. Anwarul Bar Chowdhury worked as a senior consultant of Bangladesh Enterprise Institute for Private Sector Development Project of IFC/World Bank.
Mr. Md. Mahfuzur Rahman
Independent Director & Vice Chairman
Md. Mahfuzur Rahman is an Independent Director of GSP Finance Company (Bangladesh) PLC. He obtained his Masters in Economics from Dhaka University in 1981 and also obtained BCS in Service Cadre (Batch 1982-Regular). Mr. Mahfuzur Rahman started his professional career as Assistant Commissioner and Magistrate Commissioner (DC), (1984-1988). Thereafter by gradually Mr. Rahman contributed his services as Cantonment Executive Officer (1988-1990),Thana Nirbahi Officer-TNO (1990-1993), Deputy Director (1993-1994), Senior Assistant Secretary in the year 1994, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC), and Additional District Magistrate (ADM), (1994-2000). Next he performed his responsibilities as Senior Assistant Secretary and Deputy Secretary (2000-2001), Deputy Commissioner (DC) & District Magistrate (DM), (2001-2004), Director General in Ministry of Food and Disaster Management (2004-2006), Divisional Commissioner in Cabinet Division, Dhaka (2006-2007), the Director General in Ministry of Land (2007-2009). He also contributed his dignity full services in Executive Director (2009-2011), Secretary in Bangladesh Parliament Secretariat (2011-2013), Chairman in Ministry of Law (2013-2018), Senior Secretary in Ministry of Public administration in the year 2018, Executive Director in Anjuman Mufidul Islam (2021-2024). Mr. Rahman attended several times in training, Conferences and Academic Events and Study Tours programme in Bangladesh and Foreign countries.