Dr. Mohammad Tareque is an Independent Director of Mutual Trust Bank PLC (MTB). He is also the Managing Director, Board of Trustees and Director of Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management (BIGM). Before joining BIGM, Dr. Tareque worked as an Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and Finance Secretary (Finance Division), Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh. He served in the Finance Division in various capacities – Deputy Secretary and Additional Secretary. He also worked about four years with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Micro-economic Analysis Specialist. He was the Director of Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Bangladesh (GoB). Dr. Tareque spent about 36 years in civil service. Thus, he has a wide range of experience in Public Administration, Public Finance Management, Development Planning, Micro-economic Management and Training.

Dr. Tareque completed BA (Honors) and MA in Economics from the University of Dhaka. He also completed his PhD in Economics and MA in Political Economy from the University of Boston, USA. He participated in many professional training programs at National and International reputed institutions. Dr. Tareque has written around 13 articles/conference papers in reputed International and National journals indexed in/published by SSCI and ESCI – Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), Scopus, SAGE, Springer, Wiley, and Emerald.