DR. MOHAMMAD TAREQUE, a career civil servant, currently serves as the Director at Bangladesh Institute of Governance and Management (BIGM). Before joining BIGM, he worked as an Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank and Finance Secretary (Finance Division), Ministry of Finance, Bangladesh. He served in the Finance Division in various capacities - Deputy Secretary through Additional Secretary. He also worked about four years with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a Micro-economic Analysis Specialist and five years as Director, Prime Minister’s Office, Government of Bangladesh (GoB). He spent about 36 years in civil service. Thus, he has a wide range of experience in public administration, public finance management, development planning, macro-economic management and training. During his long tenure of about 15 years in the Finance Division, he developed a team of spirited officers, bonded by an esprit–de–corps, brought in a culture of intellectual discourse, led the team to usher in a wide range of reforms within the public financial management system of Bangladesh. He helped introduce the Medium-term Budgetary framework across the government based on a Medium-term Macro-framework, created Macro, Debt Management, and Autonomous wings of finance division without creating any single additional post. He also helped separation of monetary policy from fiscal operations, facilitated introductions of Public-Private Parentships (PPP) and PPP financing instruments, creation of Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL) as a PPP project financing vehicle and established Public Financial Management (PFM) capacity enhancing institute namely, the Institute of Public Finance (IPF). During his long career in the finance division, he developed more than 20 policy papers to ensure socio-economic developmental stability and strengthen financial accountability. Dr. Tareque completed BA (Honours) and MA in Economics from the University of Dhaka. He also completed his PhD in Economics and MA in Political Economy from the University of Boston, USA.