Dhaka, June 30 (New Age): Latifur Rahman, vice-president
of the International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh and chairman and chief
executive officer Transcom Group, has been elected member of the executive
board of the Paris-based ICC for a three-year term starting from July 2014.
ICC, the global business organisation, during its 202nd
council held in Geneva on June 27 unanimously elected Latifur and five others
as executive board members, said a news release on Sunday.
Latifur has served in many national bodies in various
capacities including president of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and
Industry, Dhaka for several terms, president of the Bangladesh Employers’
Federation for two terms and member of executive committee of the Federation of
Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Bangladesh Jute Mills
Association and the Bangladesh Tea Association.
He was member of the executive board of Bangladesh Bank.
He has been closely involved with fiscal and trade policy making bodies of the
government as chairman of Trade Body Reforms Committee, Advisory Committee on
WTO, and National Committee on Export Promotion and Consultative Committee on
Jute.
Latifur is also the chairman of Nestlé Bangladesh, Holcim
Cement Bangladesh and National Housing Finance and Investments, director of
Linde Bangladesh (formerly British Oxygen) and member of governing body of
BRAC.