Reza Ali | |
Native Name: | রেজা আলী |
Constituency Mp: | Mymensingh-7 |
Term Start: | 25 January 2009 |
Term End: | 24 January 2014 |
Predecessor: | Abdul Matin Sarkar |
Successor: | M. A. Hannan |
Birth Date: | 10 April 1940 |
Birth Place: | Sylhet, Assam Province, British India (now Bangladesh) |
Death Place: | Singapore |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Education: | Aitchison College St. Gregory's High School |
Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka |
Reza Ali (Bengali: রেজা আলী; 10 April 1940 – 13 February 2023) was a Bangladeshi politician, businessman and lawyer. He served as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad, representing the Awami League in the Mymensingh-7 constituency from 2009 to 2014.
Ali was born on 10 April 1940 to Tafazzal Ali and Sarah Khatun Chowdhury in his maternal home in Sylhet. His father became the Minister for Health of the East Pakistan government in 1947 and later the Minister of Revenue. He then became the minister of commerce of the-then Pakistan central government. Later, he became the Ambassador of Pakistan to Egypt.
Ali was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. Ali was an entrepreneur, having pioneered the advertising industry in Bangladesh & also one of the first to enter Bangladesh's garment manufacturing and export business.
Ali died in Singapore on 13 February 2023, at the age of 82.[1] He was married to Nayeema Ali and had three children; Miran Ali, Sarah Ali and Mishal Ali.[2]