Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury


Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury is a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and former Minister of Commerce. He hails from a political family in Chittagong and headed the city's BNP unit momentarily to organize the party.

Career

Chowdhury is a businessman and former chairman and founder of Chittagong Stock Exchange, a former president of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industries and the first president of Federation of South Asian Exchanges. He was the former commerce minister in the BNP government from 2001 to 2004. He resigned on 25 March 2004 from the cabinet.
Chowdhury is the chief adviser of Khaleda Zia, the chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He is the chief of BNP's Chittagong city unit.