The Bangladesh Bank has promoted its Secretary's Department Director SM Rezaul Karim as executive director.

The promotion became effective on January 1, the central bank said in a statement Wednesday.

Rezaul started his Bangladesh Bank career in 1993 as an assistant director. After completing basic training, he was posted at the central bank's Bogura office.

Later he served the central bank in different capacities – in inspection, foreign exchange policy, human resources, payment system departments and Microcredit Regulatory Authority (Dispatch).

The new Bangladesh Bank executive director is from Bogura and completed his graduation as well as post-graduation in geology from Dhaka University.