Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah

Sheikh Mohammad Salim Ullah is a Bangladesh civil servant and secretary of the Ministry of Finance.^[1] He is in-charge of the Financial Institutions Division at the Ministry of Finance.^[2] He served under Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal.^[3]

Early life

Ullah was born in Feni District.^[4] He did his undergraduate and graduate studies in finance at the University of Dhaka.^[4]

Career

Ullah joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1991 as an assistant commissioner.^[4] He worked as the assistant commissioner of land and Upazila Nirbahi Officer.^[4]

In August 2021, Ullah was promoted to secretary and appointed head of the Financial Institutions Division.^[5] He was serving as the additional secretary of the Finance Division of the Ministry of Finance.^[5] He replaced Senior Secretary Ashadul Islam as the head of the Financial Institutions Division.^[6] He is the deputy chairman of UAE-Bangladesh Investment Company Limited.^[4] He is a director of Bangladesh Bank.^[7] He was part of the Bangladeshi delegation that meet Antoinette Sayeh, Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, in Dhaka.^[8]

Ullah has called on bankers to take actions on money laundering.^[9] He is a director of the Microcredit Regulatory Authority.^[10] He called on microfinance institutions to provide more loans to low income individuals.^[11] During his time a schism developed between the Ministry of Finance and Bangladesh Bank over control.^[12] Bangladesh Bank was being treated like a department of the ministry and its officials were being appointed by the ministry limiting the freedom of the central bank.^[12]