2011 – 2014 Bangladesh India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka World Bank Group/IFC
Regional Program Manager for Investment Climate/Business Environment in South Asia
- Managing 6.5 M USD program per year and 10 staff on time within budget and with highest standards of outcomes.
- Managing complex stakeholders’ relationship between government officials, businesses, international donor community and leading Bangladeshi donor & government sub-committee on investments.
- Designs and sets regional standards for Business Regulations aligned with the Global IFC/WB products for South Asia with a focus on high developmental impact, ensuring strategy is in line with IFC strategic objectives and regional business model.
- Provides sound technical expertise to regional Business Regulations teams and regional internal clients (investment and advisory) ensuring the product meets high quality standards, and has a clear development and exit strategy;
- Ensures the development of and adherence to a solid measurement and evaluation framework for the product in collaboration with M&E staff and in line with WB practices and policies, including setting guidelines for pre-implementation scoping and post-project monitoring; Promotes cooperation within WBG through FPD, PREM etc.
- Leads on PSD, business regulations, institutional & regulatory reforms, governance initiatives in 5 South Asian countries.
- Leads South Asia Business Regulation Practice Group for India, Bangladesh, Nepal ,Bhutan & Sri Lanka.
- Developed & introduced Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) in Bangladesh under Digital Bangladesh e-government initiative
- Implementing Tax Administration Reform including e-taxes, Introduction of Alternative Dispute Resolution systems.
- Introducing 10M USD Regulatory Enforcement & Inspections program in Bangladesh, Nepal and India
- Investment climate work in regulatory simplification, BPR, PPPs, climate change and sector specific work in infrastructure, transport, power and energy, gas & oil, water, health, food, SME, local economic development etc.
- FEZ SEZ regulatory simplification issues form identification, designing interventions, investment promotion.
- Contributes to the knowledge management agenda taking accountability for gathering, managing and disseminating global best practice and institutional knowledge across IFC;
- Produced a manual for Business Process Reengineering for Public Organizations for the World Bank Group official use.
- Led Bangladeshi Government Delegation to a one week study tour in Jakarta, Indonesia, hosted by Indonesian Ministry of Local Government.
- Working on Access to Finance, Sustainable Business Advisory, Inclusive Business Models, Investment Facilitation.
