Mr. Anisuddin Ahmed Khan, also known as Anis A. Khan, is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers, Bangladesh. He is a former Managing Director & CEO of Mutual Trust Bank PLC. (MTB), where he served for nearly eleven years from April 2009 until his retirement on November 30, 2019. Before joining MTB, he served as the Managing Director of IDLC Finance Limited for six years. A career banker, he served for twenty-one years with the then Grindlays Bank PLC and its successor banks - ANZ Grindlays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), both 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 up gradation 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, Harvard University, 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, Harvard University, in June 2017. He presented a paper on investment in Bangladesh at Yale University in March 2019.
Mr. Khan’s commitment to professional development is evident in his participation in leadership, corporate governance and strategic management training courses at prestigious institutions such as the University of Cambridge, INSEAD, the University of California, Berkeley and the London School of Economics.
He has served as the first-ever Senior Vice President of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) and continues to be a director of the organization. He is a Trustee Board member of the British Business Group in Bangladesh and a Life Member of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He serves as Chairman of Valor of Bangladesh, Independent Trustee of the CSR Centre, Advisor (former President) of the Bangladesh Cancer Aid Trust (BANCAT) and as the Vice Chairman of the Management Committee of Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute & Hospital (IIEI&H), Dhaka. He has served as Chairman of both the Association of Bankers’ Bangladesh Limited (ABB) and Primary Dealers Bangladesh Limited (PDBL). While at MTB, he served as Vice Chairman of MTB Securities Limited and MTB Capital Limited and as Director of MTB Exchange (UK) Limited.
He has served earlier as a director of Eastern Bank PLC., Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Limited, Chittagong Stock Exchange PLC, Bangladesh Rating Agency Limited (BDRAL), BD Ventures Limited, Vice President and Director of the Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC), Vice Chairman, Independent Director and Chairman of the Board Audit Committee of Industrial and Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IIDFC) and Independent Director of Berger Paints Bangladesh Limited and Chairman of its Board Audit Committee and Nomination & Remuneration Committee.
Mr. Khan was also on the board of Central Counterparty Bangladesh Limited (CCBL), a company formed by the Government to automate the clearing operations of the stock exchanges.
He is an Independent Director of Summit Power Limited and Ananta Apparels Limited. He also serves as the Director of ACI Limited, ACI Motors Limited, W&W Grains Corporation and Tyser Risk Management Bangladesh Limited. He is the Managing Partner of AAZ & Partners, a legal firm.
