Md. Abdus Salam FCA, FCS, an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Bank, was the elected President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for the year 2013. He has been serving the Institute as the Council Member since 2010. Mr. Salam was the Board Member of South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) - an Official Body of the SAARC for the year 2013. He was also a Board Member of Dhaka Stock Exchange PLC (2013), Chittagong Stock Exchange PLC (2013), Bangladesh Institute of Capital Market, (2013) of Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission, Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Foundation (2013). He was in the Board of Governors of National Academy of Planning and Development, Ministry of Planning, Government of Bangladesh. He is currently serving the Coal Power Generation Company of Bangladesh as the GoB Nominee.

Mr. Salam is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Bangladesh (ICSB) and also the founder President of Institute of Supply Management Bangladesh. He is a Life Member of Bangladesh Computer Society and the Bangladesh Economic Association. In his long career, he served in a number of government, autonomous bodies and multilateral international development organizations including UNDP, ADB, The World Bank, CIDA, DFID, NORAD, SIDA, EC, DANIDA under various capacities in the fields of financial management, auditing and governance. He was associated with the Primary Education Development Program in Bangladesh having 11 Development Partners including the World Bank and the ADB. He was also the technical adviser of the IDA Technical Assistance Project for Chartered Accountants titled, “Development of Accounting and Auditing Standards in Bangladesh” financed by the World Bank. He was the Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh PLC from 2010 to 2015 in the capacity of Depositor Director and Independent Director.

Mr. Salam, presented a number of technical papers in the National and International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops. Being a widely traveled personality, he visited in United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.