Nadia Nivin Appointed Chairperson of IDRA
Nadia Nivin. Photo: LinkedIn.
Mir Nadia Nivin, former member of the Election System Reform Commission of the interim government, has been appointed Chairperson of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA). A notification issued today Tuesday by the Financial Institutions Division confirmed her appointment for a three-year term.
Earlier, IDRA Chairperson Dr. Aslam Alam resigned on 2 March. Since then, there had been widespread discussion in the insurance sector over who would lead the organisation. Later, the authorities amended the IDRA Act on 5 May regarding the appointment of the chairperson and members, and a gazette was published the same day. The amendment removed the age limit requirement, while retaining the experience criteria.
According to Section 7(1) of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority Act 2010, a candidate must have at least 20 years of experience in insurance, finance, banking, marketing, statistics, accounting, management, administration, or law. However, the law does not specify the level of educational qualification or require experience in a specific post. Under Subsection 2, if a suitable candidate is not found, the experience requirement may be relaxed.
Nadia Nivin joined Delta Life Insurance as an independent director in October 2025. A source from Delta Life said she still holds the position.
According to available information from an interview, Nadia was born in Kuwait, where she studied at an English-medium school for some time. She later returned to Bangladesh with her parents during fourth grade. In 2006, she completed her master’s degree from California State University, Sacramento, and later obtained another master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.
Her career began in August 2007 as a Programme Officer at UNDP. She later worked with the Government of Bangladesh’s a2i programme.
In 2009, she began working at the international level, with her first posting in Germany. She later worked at UNDP headquarters in New York as part of the Global Elections Team.
In 2013, she served as an Election Programme Specialist in Afghanistan, where she worked on elections, parliament, public financial management, local government, central administration capacity building, and gender equality.
She later worked in Pakistan’s former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, focusing on rehabilitation programmes for displaced populations. In 2018, she worked in Malaysia with the Election Commission, the Prime Minister’s Office anti-corruption policy body, and other national institutions.
In March 2020, she joined Myanmar, where she worked on digital healthcare services, cross-border vaccination programmes, and the UN’s first AI-based human rights initiatives.
