Helal Rahman

Helal Rahman was born in Bangladesh and moved to the UK aged 22. He has dual nationality and spends most of his time in the UK. He graduated in Social Sciences from Greenwich University of London.

He has started his career working in the Department of Education and Socio-Economic Regeneration at a Local Authority in London. He worked at a senior management level both in the local government, central government initiated projects, voluntary and private sectors. Helal also worked in the private sector in Bangladesh, working with one of the largest printing and packaging company, Eagle Box & Carton Mfg. Co. in Dhaka, as a Managing Director and CEO.

Helal has worked with a number of voluntary organisations, working to improve education and socio-economic progression and the lives of people with disabilities. When he was studying at Sylhet M.C. College in Bangladesh he was the elected General Secretary (GS) of the (Chatro Sangshad) Student Union (1980-81).

Some of Helal’s voluntary involvements are as follows:

Trustee of the Wakefield and Tetley Trust in London – working to improve the Socio Economic Condition of the people around the Tower of London, UK.

Founding member, Trustee and Chairman of Keen Student School – an organisation focused on improving the educational attainment and achievement for minority communities in the East End of London.

Trustee and Chairman of apasen International based in London – provider of social and community services for people with disabilities from all backgrounds. This project was also established as a registered NGO (Non Governmental Organisation) in Bangladesh in 2013 and in collaboration with BRAC apasen International run schools in Dhaka, Sylhet, Ghazipur, Pubna and Khulna for poor people with disabilities. In Sylhet it runs a Day Centre and a British Curriculum school as a joint venture project with Phinix School from London.

Councillor and Cabinet member, of London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council. Under his political leadership the IDEA Stores – a concept of modern library system was established which was extremely popular with the residents of the borough and later this concept was replicated to many more local authorities in the country and beyond.

As cabinet member of Tower Hamlets Council, Helal has participated as a member of the 10 member 2012 London Olympic Preparatory Committee who had prepared the Olympic Bid for London and won the bid to hold the 2012 Olympic in London.

Currently, Helal is a director and Chairman of Klaspad Ltd. – a private sector company and a partner organisation of Bangor University in the UK, facilitating post graduation courses within the country and abroad.

He is also a Director and the Chairman of Auditream Ltd. – a private sector company who is a system provider for education with Blockchain Technology.

Helal has been a Founder shareholder and now director of NRB Bank Ltd.