Yeahia Mirza of City Bank has been elected as the new president of the Public Relations Association of Banks (PRAB), an organization for public relations officers in the banking sector. Nazrul Islam of Dutch-Bangla Bank has been elected as the general secretary. A full 33-member executive committee will be formed during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) scheduled for next November.
New leadership has been announced for the Public Relations Association of Banks (PRAB), an organization representing public relations officials from banks across the country. Yeahia Mirza, Head of PR and Media at City Bank PLC, has been elected as the president, while Nazrul Islam, Head of Public Affairs and Brand Communication at Dutch-Bangla Bank, has been elected as the general secretary.
The names of the new president and general secretary were announced yesterday at a networking event organized by *Bonik Barta* at a hotel in Gulshan, Dhaka. The announcement was made by Moniruzzaman Tipu, the founding general secretary of the association.
Also present on stage were PRAB’s founding president Ataur Rahman, outgoing president Shamsuddoha Shimu, outgoing general secretary Jalal Ahmed Swapan, and other senior members of the organization.
PRAB was established in 2011, bringing together professionals from the brand and communication departments of various banks in the country. The organization is governed by a 33-member executive committee, which is reconstituted every two years. The committee includes heads of public relations and branding departments from the country’s leading commercial banks, as well as senior public relations officials from Bangladesh Bank.
Regarding the formation of the full committee, founding general secretary Moniruzzaman Tipu stated that the 33-member executive committee will be constituted during the Annual General Meeting (AGM) this coming November.
More than 200 officials working in the public relations departments of the country’s scheduled banks and financial institutions attended the networking event organized by *Bonik Barta*.