Dhaka, Aug 14(UNB)-Eminent economist Ahsan H Mansur has been appointed as next governor of Bangladesh Bank on Tuesday night, said authority.
 
The Ministry of Finance has issued a gazette notification, signed by Afsan Bilkis, deputy secretary of the ministry, in this regard.
 
The government has appointed him as per Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972 (President's Order No.127 of 1972).
 
Earlier, the interim government decided to appoint a new head of the central bank after governor Abdur Rouf Talukder resigned on August 9 in the wake of the fall of Awami League regime amid mass movement.
 
Mansur, 72, is currently the executive director of the Policy Research Institute (PRI), a think tank.
 
Earlier he held various important positions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is well known as an analyst of the country's financial sector.
 
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