Bangladesh Governor to Inaugurate
11th annual banking conference to begin at BIBM on Wednesday
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The Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) will hold its two-day 11th annual banking conference at its Mirpur-2 premises in Dhaka from Wednesday (28 October 2026). Mr. Md Mostaqur Rahman FCMA, the Governor of Bangladesh Bank and Chairman of the BIBM Governing Board, will attend the inauguration as Chief Guest.
The inaugural session will take place in the BIBM auditorium. Dr. Prashanta Kumar Banerjee, Professor of BIBM and Chair of the conference organizing committee, will deliver the address of welcome. Dr. Zaidi Sattar, Chairman of the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh (PRI), will present the keynote speech on “Bangladesh Banking System and Monetary-Fiscal-Trade Policy Coordination for Macroeconomic Stability and Growth.”
Dr. Md. Kabir Ahmed, Deputy Governor, Bangladesh Bank, Jean Pesme, Division Director, World Bank-Bangladesh and Bhutan, Abdul Hai Sarker, Chairman, Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) and Chairman, Dhaka Bank PLC, Mashrur Arefin, Managing Director & CEO, City Bank PLC, and Chairman, Association of Bankers Bangladesh Limited (ABB) will speak as special guests.
Dr. Wahiduddin Mahmud, economist and former Professor of the department of economics, University of Dhaka, will speak as guest of honor. The chief guest will then address the gathering and formally inaugurate the conference. Books will be unveiled, and Dr. Md. Ezazul Islam, Director General of BIBM, will deliver a speech as Conference Chair.
The conference will feature 13 plenary sessions and the presentation of 104 research articles. More than 800 participants are expected, including experts, bankers, researchers and students from home and abroad. The media partners of the event are DBC, Daily Bonik Barta, Dhaka Stream and The Business Standard.
BIBM has organized the Annual Banking Conference since 2012. The two-day gathering brings together experts, academics and researchers from around the world to share knowledge, experience and research findings on banking and related issues. Its sessions cover contemporary issues and sustainability concerns in banking, finance and the economy, in both national and international contexts.
The Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) is a leading national institution for training, research, consultancy and publications in the field of banking and finance in Bangladesh.
