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Economist Anis Chowdhury made special assistant to CA
Anis Chowdhury
Dhaka, Mar 10 - Dr Anisuzzaman Chowdhury, an economics professor better known as Anis Chowdhury, has been appointed as a special assistant to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus.
The Cabinet Division issued a notification in this regard on Monday.
Dr. Anisuzzaman has been appointed as Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser with the rank of a state minister, it said. That means he will get the salary and other benefits equivalent to the rank of a state minister.
He has also been given executive powers at the Ministry of Finance.
Anis Chowdhury migrated to Australia in 1987, and pursued a career teaching economics at the University of New England, and the University of Western Sydney. He also had a spell at the University of Singapore.
He also worked for 8 years at the UN Secretariat, which began and ended at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN-DESA) in New York. - UNB