| Gayeshwar Chandra Roy | |
| Native Name: | গয়েশ্বর চন্দ্র রায় |
| Office: | Minister of State for Environment and Forest |
| Primeminister: | Khaleda Zia |
| Term Start: | 20 March 1991 |
| Term End: | 10 October 1993 |
| Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
| Predecessor: | Qazi Fazlur Rahman |
| Successor: | Muhammad Yunus |
| Birth Date: | 1 November 1951 |
| Birth Place: | Keraniganj, Dhaka |
| Occupation: | politician |
Gayeshwar Chandra Roy is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) politician and former state minister of the Bangladeshi government. He is currently serving as a Standing Committee (the highest policy-making forum) member of the party.[1] He was also a member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal during the 1970s.
Roy was born on 1 November 1951 in a Bengali Hindu family of Dhaka district of the then East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan (now Bangladesh), to Gannandra Chandra Roy and Sumoti Roy.[2]
Roy was involved in progressive politics in his student life. In the 1970s, he was a member of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal.[3] He joined Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, a political wing of the BNP, in 1978.[4] After the 5th parliamentary election in 1991, the BNP formed the government and Roy was made state minister for the Ministry of Environment and Forest (now Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) under the technocrat quota. Later, he was appointed as one of the joint secretaries general of BNP and then a member of the Standing Committee.