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Secretary-General

Jaseem Ahmed

Jaseem Ahmed assumed the position of the Secretary-General of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) on 1st May 2011.

Prior to his appointment to the IFSB, Mr. Ahmed served as the Director, Financial Sector, Public Management and Trade, Southeast Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In this capacity, he was responsible for managing the ADB's lending and capacity building operations in Southeast Asia for the promotion of sound banking and non-banking financial sectors, and for the strengthening of supervision and regulatory capacities. Mr. Ahmed led the ADB's response in the Southeast Asia region to the global crisis, which includes the approval of three crisis support programmes under the ADB's Counter Cyclical Support Facility provided to Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.

Mr. Ahmed was also Practice Leader for Islamic finance at the ADB responsible for managing Technical Assistance (TA) programmes – including those to the IFSB - jointly funded with the Islamic Development Bank. He was a member of the IFSB High Level Task Force on Liquidity Management, the group which proposed the establishment of the recently established International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation.

Mr. Ahmed led the ADB team that helped prepare the Implementation Plan for integration of capital markets in Southeast Asia, approved by ASEAN Finance Ministers in April 2009. He also worked closely with the ASEAN Stock Exchanges in their development of an Exchange Alliance, which begins implementation in 2011.

Mr. Ahmed has a BA in economics from the University of Sussex and also holds two graduate degrees in economics from Yale University. He is a national of Bangladesh.

Previous Secretary-General

Professor Datuk Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim
March 2003 - April 2011