Chairman and founder of Policy Exchange Bangladesh, M Masrur Reaz, has been appointed as the chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).

Reaz will be the chairman of the BSEC for the next four years, the Financial Institutions Division of the finance ministry said in a circular today.

He is an economist and a policy expert. He also worked as a senior economist in the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice of the World Bank Group for 10 years since 2010.

After Sheikh Hasina’s fall, Prof Shibli Rubayat-ul Islam resigned from the BSEC along with two other commissioners, Prof Rumana Islam and Shaikh Shamsuddin Ahmed.