NI Khan
Md Nazrul Islam Khan | |
|---|---|
| Other names | N I Khan |
| Occupation(s) | Civil servant, company chairman |
| Years active | –present |
| Known for | Former secretary of education in Bangladesh; chairman and independent director at International Leasing and Financial Services Limited |
Md Nazrul Islam Khan, also referred to as N I Khan, is a former secretary of education in Bangladesh. He presently holds the positions of chairman and independent director at International Leasing and Financial Services Limited. Khan has also served as the private secretary to Sheikh Hasina during her period as opposition leader and within the Prime Minister's Office.
Career
In 2008, Khan was appointed director general of the Directorate of Primary Education. By September 2011, he advanced to become secretary of the Ministry of Education, where he spearheaded initiatives such as launching online college admissions, adapting educational facilities for rainy weather conditions, and establishing elected student councils in secondary schools. Before this role, he was secretary of the Information and Communication Technology Division under the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. Additionally, he acted as private secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and led the national project for the Access to information in Bangladesh program within the Prime Minister's Office.
Khan assumed the role of curator at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in March 2016. Since that year, he has been chairing the National Wages and Productivity Commission, managing policies related to national wages.
In November 2020, he was named acting chairperson of Palli Sanchay Bank. Subsequently, the High Court's Company Bench appointed him chairman of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited. In January 2021, a different High Court bench imposed a temporary restriction on his overseas travel due to allegations involving Prashanta Kumar Halder and People's Leasing and Financial Services; however, this order was overturned by the Supreme Court's Appellate Division, which confirmed his non-involvement with those entities and validated his rightful appointment as chairman.