Farzana Ahmed is a UK qualified Chartered Accountant with nearly 40 years of experience in the public and private sector. Ms Ahmed served at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) based in the Philippines for more than 20 years, where she led and contributed to independent evaluation, strategy and policy, operations and portfolio management. Prior to that, she held senior financial positions in prominent multinational corporations in the United Kingdom and Australia. During her service at ADB, Ms Ahmed was posted in Indonesia, and was invited to coordinate Australia’s support to the reconstruction of Aceh, following the Tsunami in 2004. She was also involved in managing and evaluating development projects in multiple ADB member countries, including Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Pakistan, People’s Republic of China, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, and Vietnam. Driven by her passion for promoting quality education, Ms Ahmed took an early retirement from her position at the ADB in 2019. She took on the responsibility of managing Kids Tutorial in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a family school established 40 years ago by her grandmother, Dr Amina Rahman, a renowned advocate for women’s rights. Currently she is an Independent Director at the Board of BRAC Bank Limited. Ms Ahmed is a graduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, England.