The Bangladesh Bank has promoted its Secretary's Department Director SM Rezaul Karim as executive director.

The promotion became effective on January 1, the central bank said in a statement Wednesday.

Rezaul started his Bangladesh Bank career in 1993 as an assistant director. After completing basic training, he was posted at the central bank's Bogura office.

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Later he served the central bank in different capacities – in inspection, foreign exchange policy, human resources, payment system departments and Microcredit Regulatory Authority (Dispatch).

The new Bangladesh Bank executive director is from Bogura and completed his graduation as well as post-graduation in geology from Dhaka University.