Salma Nasreen

Mrs. Salma Nasreen is a former Additional Secretary of Bangladesh Civil Service (Administration). She served more than 33 years in Civil Service including Bangladesh Tariff Commission, Bangladesh Biman Airlines, Better Business Forum and BIDA (earlier BOI) on deputation with excellent reputation. She worked in the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Home Affairs (twice), Ministry of Finance (thrice), Economic Relations Division (ERD), Ministry of Fisheries and livestock and Financial Institutions Division.

Salma Nasreen was born in Nalchity in the district Jhalakati in 1960. She achieved Honours and master’s degree in economics from the University of Dhaka. She attained her MSc in Macro Economic Policy & Planning in Developing countries from the University of Bradford in UK in 1996 and got additional Master’s degree in Security Studies from Bangladesh University of Professionals in 2012. She is a life Member of Bangladesh Economic Association and Bangladesh Administrative Service Association. She also accomplished National Defence Course successfully in 2012 from National Defence College in Dhaka.

She has knowledge and experience of multidimensional arenas. She is a lyricist as well as writer in the daily newspapers and journals. She wrote articles on Father of the Nation in Global Perspective (The Shomoy Journal), Capital Market and Central Bank (the Financial Express), Women Empowerment (the Daily Ittefaq), Skill and Development (the Daily Prothom Alo) including Universal Primary Education published in the journal of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. She completed a research paper on Trade Reform in Bangladesh while studying in the University of Bradford in UK.

She became enlisted lyricist of Bangladesh Betar in 1995 and Bangladesh Television in 1997. She wrote two melodious lyrical books named “Madhobi Raat Shesh Hoey Elo” and “Sritir Bohota Nodi” published in the Ekushey Book Fairs. The composer and music director Sheikh Sadi Khan composed several songs of her. She participated in various international conferences, seminars, workshops in USA, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, Iran, France, South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Belgium, Netherland, Germany, India and Armenia. She had the exposure to extracurricular activities like working as a presenter in the external service of Bangladesh Betar titled as “Voice of Islam”. She played instrumental roles in the establishment of a Women’s College in Nalchity Upozilla Shodor under the financial patronization of her close relatives. She was awarded as the first Woman Additional Secretary in the celebration of Daughter’s Day in Jalakati. Now as an independent director of the board in DSE she is working relentlessly to move DSE forward for future progress.