M Shahjahan Bhuiyan & Md Nazrul Huda

Md Nazrul Huda and M Shahjahan Bhuiyan have recently been appointed as independent directors of Bank Asia, the bank said in a statement yesterday.

Huda served Bangladesh Bank for 35 years in different capacities, including as a deputy governor of the bank, according to the statement.

He is an economics graduate from Dhaka University and he also studied at the University of New England, Australia. 

Bhuiyan is a former managing director of Prime Bank and United Commercial Bank. He brings four decades of banking experience to the new post. His banking career started with the erstwhile State Bank of Pakistan.