Mohammad Rokonuzzaman, a career central banker known for his work across foreign exchange policy, customer protection and institutional reform, has been promoted to the rank of director at Bangladesh Bank.
The promotion took effect from 1 January, according to official records.
The promotion comes at a time when the central bank is navigating one of the most demanding reform phases in its history, with heightened focus on autonomy, governance and regulatory credibility.
Colleagues describe Rokonuzzaman as an administrator who combines technical grounding with a strong institutional ethos, shaped by more than two decades inside the country’s monetary authority.
Rokonuzzaman joined Bangladesh Bank in 2003 as an assistant director after brief stints in teaching and commercial banking. Over the years, he served in several sensitive and policy-critical wings of the central bank, including the Foreign Exchange Policy Department, the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA), the Department of Off-site Supervision (DOS), and the Financial Integrity and Customer Services Department (FICSD).
He is widely associated with the establishment and operationalisation of the Customer Interest Protection Centre (CIPC), an initiative aimed at strengthening depositor and consumer protection within the banking system.
Officials familiar with the process say his role was instrumental in translating policy intent into a functioning institutional mechanism at a time when public trust in banks was under strain.
Currently posted to the Secretary’s Department, Rokonuzzaman has been directly involved in internal reform work linked to the autonomy of Bangladesh Bank and proposed changes to the Bangladesh Bank Order (BBO), areas that have drawn intense scrutiny amid repeated episodes of governance failure in the financial sector.
An alumnus of Notre Dame College, Dhaka, and the University of Dhaka, where he completed both his honours and master’s degrees in English, Rokonuzzaman later earned a Master’s in Bank Management from the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM).
Beyond his official duties, he has participated in numerous training programmes, seminars and conferences at home and abroad, and remains engaged in educational, religious, sports and social activities.
