Anisuddin Ahmed Khan
Independent Director
Mr. Anisuddin Ahmed Khan, also known as Anis A. Khan, is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, Bangladesh. He is the former Managing Director & CEO of Mutual Trust Bank PLC (MTB), where he served for about eleven years from April 2009 until his retirement on November 30, 2019. Before joining MTB, he headed IDLC Finance PLC for six years. A career banker, he served earlier for 21 years with the then Grindlays Bank and its successor banks - ANZ Grindlays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) - in Bangladesh and abroad.
He has sound knowledge in corporate banking, credit appraisals and credit operations, banking operations and systems, trade finance, risk management, syndicated and structured finance, merchant banking and stock brokerage services, leasing, factoring, legal and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, business process re-engineering and transformation, and the upgrading of information technology platforms, acquired in Bangladesh, India, UAE, UK, Australia, and South Africa.
He has presented a paper on “Financing the Transformation of the Bangladesh Garments Industry” at the School of South Asian Studies, University of Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and “Achieving SDGs: Financial Inclusion, Bangladesh Perspective” at the Bangladesh Development Conference held there in June 2015. Similarly, he presented another paper on “Financial Inclusion” at Kennedy Law School, University of Harvard, in June 2017. He presented a paper on investment in Bangladesh at Yale University in March 2019.
Mr. Khan has attended leadership, corporate governance, and strategic management training courses at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France; University of California, Berkeley, California, USA; and the London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom.
He is a Life Member of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has served as the first Senior Vice President of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Dhaka (MCCI), and continues to be a director of the organization.
He served as Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of the Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC) and is currently the Editor of its Quarterly Bulletin.
He is Chairman of Valor of Bangladesh, President of the Bangladesh Cancer Aid Trust (BANCAT), Independent Trustee of the CSR Centre, and a member of the Management Committee of Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute & Hospital (IIEI&H), Dhaka, and Chairman of its Nomination & Remuneration Committee. He also serves as a trustee of Bangladesh Business Disability Network and a member of the Board of Governors of the Society for Promotion of Bangladesh Art. He was Chairman of the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh Limited (ABB) and Primary Dealers Bangladesh Limited (PDBL). While at MTB, he was Vice Chairman of MTB Securities Limited and MTB Capital Limited and Director of MTB Exchange (UK) Limited.
He has served earlier as a director of Eastern Bank Limited, Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Limited, Chittagong Stock Exchange PLC, Bangladesh Rating Agency Limited (BDRAL), and BD Ventures Limited. He was Vice Chairman, Independent Director, and Chairman of the Board Audit Committee of Industrial and Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IIDFC), Independent Director of Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited, and Chairman of its Board Audit and Nomination & Remuneration Committees.
With LL.B. (Honours) and LL.M. (First Class First) degrees from the University of Dhaka and initially enrolled as an Advocate of the Dhaka Bar Association in August 1980, he is now Managing Partner of AAZ & Partners, a full-service legal and financial advisory firm set up in 2023.
He taught Banking & Finance as an Adjunct Professor at the School of Business and Entrepreneurship of Independent University Bangladesh (IUB).
He is an Independent Director of Trust Bank Limited, Summit Alliance Port Limited (SAPL), and Ananta Apparels Limited. He also serves as a director of ACI Limited, ACI Motors Limited, and W&W Grains Corporation.
