Nurjahan Begum
Adviser
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Ms. Nurjahan Begum has taken the charge of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as adviser of the interim government.
Ms. Nurjahan Begum, one of the earliest associates of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus during the establishment of Grameen Bank. She was the acting Managing Director of the Grameenbank andserved as Managing Director of Grameen Shakti and GrameenShikkha.
She served as the principal of GrameenBank Central Training Institute.In the capacity of chairperson, director or trusteeshe served several Grameen organizations. Ms. Nurjahan Begum contributed as a director ofGrameenFoundation,USA;Grameenphone Ltd. Bangladesh; Grameen Italia Foundation, Italy and Center for Mass Education in Science (CMES), Bangladesh.
Ms. Nurjahan Begum was awarded the Susan M. Davis Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 by Grameen Foundation, the World Summit Millennium Development Goals Award 2009, the Vision Award 2009, the Outstanding Contribution to Education Award at Ed Leadership 7th International Roundtable 2014, and the Yunus Social Business Summit Award in 2017. She participated in the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit held in Los Angeles in 2007 and was appointed President to the Foundation for Justice Prize giving ceremony held in Valencia, Spain in 2007.
She obtained Master’s degree from Chittagong University.