Masud Rana

Md Masud Rana, Joint Director, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, has highly successful and results-driven career with 16+ years of exposure to upgrade and establish resilient AML/CFT regime in Bangladesh through strategic analysis, investigation, gap analysis, risk assessment, research and studies, drafting of laws, rules, strategies and policies. He is as national and international mentor/consultant and has assisted several government authorities to build resilient law enforcement and anti-corruption regime as well as undertaken country assessment of several countries as a part of international expert team. Mr. Rana is a Certified Anti Money Laundering/Counter Terrorism Financing Specialist. He has obtained MBA (Finance) from Rajshahi University, and double master’s degree in Intelligence & Counter Terrorism from the ‘Macquarie University’ Sydney, Australia. Currently, he has completed master’s equivalent degree on “Certified Digital Finance Practitioner” by Digital Frontiers Institute, South Africa in collaboration with Tuft University, USA. Mr. Rana is also member of the FIGI Digital ID Working Group. He has also drafted e-KYC Guidelines which is a key milestone-stone for sustainable digital financial services in Bangladesh. Mr. Rana is author of a book titled “Anti Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing Compliance. He also wrote several articles on money laundering, Stolen Asset recovery, Intelligence, Counter Terrorism, Violent Extremism, Corruption, Digital Identity for building Digital Economy, Digital Banking, Digital Insurance etc.