Parveen Mahmud receives “Top 50” Women Global Awards-2023

Parveen Mahmud, a Bangladeshi businesswoman and

social worker, received “Top 50” women Global Awards Sri Lanka-2023 under the
category of Leadership in Finance and Accounting.

She is the only female leader from Bangladesh who received this prestigious
award.

In presence of Dinesh Gunawardena, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr
Sulochona Segera, founding chairperson of Women in Management (Srilanka,
Maldives, UAE & Canada) and Managing Director of Institute of Women in
Management, handed over the award to Parveen Mahmud.

The award giving ceremony was held yesterday at Shangri-la Hotel, Colombo,
Sri Lanka where Minister of Gender, Family and Social Services of government
of Sri Lanka Aishath Mohamed Didi and Federal Minister for Early Childhood
Education and Minister for Youth in the Labour, Government of Australia Dr
Anne Aly, MP, among others, were present, said a press release here today.

Women in Management (WIM) in collaboration with Women in Work, a partnership
between the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the government of
Australia, this year has selected the Top50 Female Professionals among the
500 nominations from 33 countries for the Women Global Awards 2023- Colombo,
Sri Lanka.

In recognition of remarkable achievements and dedication to the profession in
and the beyond boarder, a panel of Judges has selected Parveen Mahmud who is
identified as one of the Top50 women leaders in the world, for their hard
work, perseverance, and commitment to the excellence in work which have made
a positive impact on various sectors of the economy of the home country and
the lives of millions of women.

Parveen Mahmud is the first female President of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) in 2011, which reckons her as the first
female Board Member and the first female President among professional bodies
of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), apex accounting
professional body of SAARC.

She was the Founding Chairperson of CA Female Forum- Women in Leadership
Committee, ICAB and the Vice Chairperson of the Women in Leadership Committee
of SAFA till 2019.

She is the Chairperson of RDRS Bangladesh and sits in numerous Boards. She
was also the Chairperson of Shasha Denims Ltd., Underprivileged Children
Education Program (UCEP)- Bangladesh, MIDAS (Micro Industries Development
Assistance and Services) and Acid Survivor’s Foundation. (BSS)