M A Kashem re-elected chairman of Southeast Bank
M A Kashem has been re-elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Southeast Bank PLC, marking his continued leadership of the bank.
He was unanimously re-elected at the 796th meeting of the Board of Directors held on 9 August 2026, according to a press release.
M A Kashem is the Founder Chairman and Sponsor Director of Southeast Bank. He is also a Member and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of North South University and a Founder Life Member of NSU Trust Foundation. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees four times and has also chaired the NSU Foundation's Endowment Committee on several occasions.
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He is Chairman of Rose Corner (Pvt) Limited and a former President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI). He previously served as Chairman of the FBCCI Arbitration Tribunal and was also Chairman of the Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh (APUB).
M A Kashem served for an extended period on the Board of Trustees of Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh. He was also President of the Society for Assistance to Hearing Impaired Children (SAHIC) Trust and remains a life member of the organisation.
An industrialist, educationist, philanthropist and social worker, M A Kashem has received several national recognitions for his contributions to industry, exports, education and public service. He received the President Export Trophy for 1982–83 and 1983–84 for outstanding export performance and the C R Das Gold Medal in 1995 for his contribution to the industrial sector.
He was also recognised as a highest taxpayer by the National Board of Revenue in 2011 and 2016–17. More recently, he received the Abu Rushd Memorial Award for promoting higher education.
M A Kashem has led several trade and government delegations abroad, including an FBCCI trade delegation to Far Eastern countries in 1986, a five-member government delegation to the UK, US and Canada sponsored by UNDP in 1987, and an Export Promotion Bureau delegation to EEC countries in 1985.
His philanthropic activities include establishing the M Kashem Trust to support primary and secondary-level education in his locality. The trust has provided stipends and scholarships to meritorious students and established the 20-bed Tareque Memorial-Ibrahim General Hospital in Chhagalnaiya, Feni, as a non-profit healthcare facility.
He has also established Kashem Complex at Darogarhat, Chhagalnaiya, comprising a madrasa, mosque, Eidgah, public graveyard and training centres, while also providing free housing for poor and disadvantaged people in the locality.
M A Kashem is associated with several social, professional and recreational organisations, including Kurmitola Golf Club, Baridhara Cosmopolitan Club Limited, Gulshan Club Limited, Rotary Club of Dhaka West, National Shooting Club, Bangladesh Diabetic Association, Anjuman Mufidul Islam, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and Shishu Hospital, Chittagong.
