Shamima Nargis is a retired government Senior Secretary[1] and Chairperson of Bangladesh Development Bank.[2] She is a former member of the Planning Commission.[3]
Nargis graduated from the University of Dhaka with a bachelors and masters in English Literature.[4] She received a Hubert H Humphrey Fellowship to study at the University of Minnesota.[5]
Nargis joined Bangladesh Civil Service in 1988.
In 2010, Nargis was the Deputy Secretary at the Economic Relations Division at the Ministry of Finance.[6] She then worked at the Local Government Division as a joint secretary.[7]
In July 2015, Nargis was the Additional Secretary at the Economic Relations Division at the Ministry of Finance.[8] She signed an agreement, titled Efficient and Accountable Local Governance, between the Economic Relations Division and the United Nations Development Programme.[9]
In April 2018, Nargis was promoted to Secretary.[10] She was working as the acting secretary at the Planning Commission.
Nargis was promoted in March 2020 to Senior Secretary.[11] She retired from the civil service in October 2020; she was serving as a member of the Planning Commission.[4]
On 15 November 2021, Nargis was appointed chairperson of Bangladesh Development Bank by the Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance.[5]