Mr. Abdul-Muyeed Chowdhury was inducted in the Board of Summit Alliance Port Limited (SAPL) as a nominee Director of Alliance Holdings Limited on 30th September 2018. Prior to that he served the SAPL Board as Independent Director and Chairman of the Board’s Audit Committee consecutively for two terms of 3 years each from May 03, 2012.

A civil servant for 33 years from 1967 to 2000 having joined the then CSP cadre in 1967. Mr. Chowdhury served as Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh in various Ministries from 1994- 2000. He retired voluntarily on 31st August, 2000 as Secretary, Internal Resources Division and Chairman of the National Board of Revenue. Earlier he successfully completed the first major infrastructure project of Bangladesh (The Bangabandhy Bridge on river Jamuna) in 1998 as Secretary of the Jamuna Bridge Division of the Ministry of Communications and Executive Director of Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Project.

He served as an Adviser to the Caretaker Government of 2001 holding charge of five Ministries. He has broad knowledge and experience of serving in the Boards of different public and private organizations. He was the first Chairman of the SME Foundation which has been set up by the Government to promote and support SME’s in the country. He was the Founder Chair of the Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) representing internationally renowned NGO BRAC where he was the Executive Director from 2000 to 2006. He was also a founding Board member of NGO Foundation (NGOF) set up by the Government with an endowment fund for financing small NGOs in the country for multifarious poverty and social development programmes. He was the Managing Director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from 1991 to 1994 and Chairperson of BRAC Net (a Japan-US-Bangladesh) joint venture ISP Company from 2005 to 2016. He is a member of the Trustee Board of BRAC University and in the Boards of NGOs:Sajeda Foundation, Society for Assistance to Hearing Impaired Children (SAHIC) and GSS. He is also in the Board of several listed and non-listed Companies including ACI Ltd and Grameen phone Ltd. He is the Founder and CEO of Tiger Tours Limited, the only tour operating company in Bangladesh registered with the Board of Investment (now BIDA).

Mr. Abdul-Muyeed Chowdhury obtained BA (Honours) in 1964 and M.A in 1965 in History from Dhaka University. He also studied Public Administration at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville USA in 1981 as a Fulbright Scholar.