Ahmad Kaikaus
আহমদ কায়কাউস
Kaikaus in 2021
Alternate Executive Director
World Bank Group
Assumed office
15 December 2022
Preceded byMohammad Shafiul Alam
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister
Prime Minister's Office
In office
1 January 2020 – 14 December 2022
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded byNojibur Rahman
Succeeded byTofazzel Hossain Miah
Personal details
Born (1961-01-01) 1 January 1961
Chittagong, Bangladesh
SpouseMafruha Ahmad
Children2
Alma mater

Ahmad Kaikaus is a retired Bangladeshi civil servant who is currently alternative Executive Director of World Bank. He served as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.[1]

Education

Kaikaus completed his bachelors and master's from the University of Chittagong. He completed his second master's at the Center for Development Economics at Williams College. He earned a PhD at the University of Texas at Dallas.[2]

Career

On 21 January 1986, Kaikaus joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in the administrative cadre. He has worked as a Upazila Nirbahi Officer, magistrate and several other positions in the field and central secretariat in the early stages of his career. He served as the chairperson of the Bangladesh Energy and Power Research Council. He taught at the American International University-Bangladesh and Collin College in Texas.

On 23 February 2017, he was appointed secretary in charge of the Power Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.[2] He worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute for three years as the deputy chief of the Policy Research and Strategy Support Program.[3] In August 2019, he led the Bangladeshi team to the joint steering committee on Bangladesh-India Power Sector Cooperation. He rejected the import of electricity from Tripura, finding its infrastructure inadequate.[4]

On 29 December 2019, he was appointed the Principal Secretary of the Prime Minister's Office under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.[5][6] He was reappointed by the prime minister in December 2020 with a 2-year extension.

References

  1. ↑ "PM's principal secretary Kaikaus gets extension for 2 years". The Daily Star. 2020-12-24. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  2. 1 2 "Dr. Ahmad Kaikaus". Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Power Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus becomes principal secretary to PM". Daily Sun. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  4. ↑ "Dhaka finds Tripura 'unsuitable' for power import". The Daily Star. 27 August 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Ahmad Kaikaus new principal secretary to the PM". Dhaka Tribune. 29 December 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Dr Ahmad Kaikaus becomes principal secretary to PM". banglanews24.com. 29 December 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
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