Ms. Parveen Mahmud, FCA, has made significant contributions to the fields of social innovation, sustainable development, and professional accounting. Since 2004, she has been closely associated with UCEP Bangladesh, where she held the role of the fifteenth Chairperson from 2019-2022 and currently serves as a senior member of its association. Earlier in her tenure, Ms. Mahmud also served as the Vice-Chairperson of UCEP Bangladesh’s Board of Governors from January 2009 to December 2010.
In her varied professional career, Ms. Mahmud has worked on social innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development. She is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB).
She was the first woman President of the ICAB in 2011 and is now serving her third term in the Council. She was also the first female board member of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), the apex accounting professional body of the SAARC. She is the Chairperson of the CA Female Forum—Women in Leadership Committee, ICAB, and the Vice Chairperson of the Women in Leadership Committee of SAFA.
She started her career with BRAC. In her varied professional career, she worked substantial time with national and international development agencies and was a practicing chartered accountant. She was the Deputy Managing Director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) and the Founding Managing Director (MD) of the Grameen Telecom Trust.
She sits in numerous Boards including Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), BRAC International, PKSF, RDRS, DAM Foundation for Economic Development (Dhaka Ahsania Mission), Manusher Jonnyo Foundation (MJF), Grameenphone Ltd. Ms Mahmud is the independent director of the Linde Bangladesh Ltd., Apex Footwear Ltd. and Chairperson of Shasha Denims Ltd. and Micro Industries Development and Assistance Services (MIDAS). She was the Chairperson, Acid Survivor’s Foundation and Vice Chairperson of Underprivileged Children Education Program (UCEP) – Bangladesh and is the member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Bangladesh.
Ms. Mahmud was a member of National Advisory Panel for SME Development of Bangladesh and a founding board member of SME Foundation and Convenor, SME Women’s Forum. Ms. Mahmud was a Working Group Member, the Consultative Group on Social Indicators, UNCTAD/ISAR.
She is the recipient of Joya Alokito Nari- 2018 Award from RTV, “Women at Work -2017” Award from Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and “Women of Inspiration Awards”-2017 from the Bangladesh Organization for Learning & Development (BOLD). Ms. Mahmud received Begum Rokeya Shining Personality Award 2006 for women’s empowerment from Narikantha Foundation.