International Journal of Auditing – January 2003
Bangladesh
New Comptroller and Auditor General
On January 2, 2003 , Mr. Asif Ali was appointed the new Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh. He succeeds Mr. Muhammad Ahsan Ali Sarkar, who retired at the completion of his term of service.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Ali was the Controller General of Accounts of the Government of Bangladesh. He joined the Pakistan Military Accounts Service in 1971 and subsequently served in the Bangladesh civil service in a variety of posts. These have included Senior Finance Controller of both the Navy and Air Force; Additional Director General (Finance), Bangladesh Railway; and Director General of the Audit and Accounts Training Academy and the Financial Management Academy.
Mr. Ali received his BA honors in Political Science and MA in Political Science. He also graduated in Law from Dhaka University, where he served as Lecturer in the Political Science Department.
He has participated in international professional training and meetings of ASOSAI and INTOSAI. In addition, he was a member of the UN team that audited the UNDP and UNICEF headquarters in New York and the UNEP headquarters in Nairobi. He has authored a number of books on auditing and accounting and has published many articles in domestic and international journals.
For fur the r information, please contact: Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, Audit Bhaban, 189, Shahid Syed Nazrul Islam Saran, Dhaka-1000; tel: ++880 (2) 831 46 53; email: saibd@citechco.net, www.cagbd.org.