Md. Tohurul Hasan
Programme Manager, Access to Information (a2i), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Mr. Md. Tohurul Hasan is currently working as Programme Manager of Access to Information (a2i) under the Information and Communication Technology Division, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. He coordinates the Digital Financial Services Lab, including citizen-centered financial products and service innovation, payment digitization, behavioral change communication on banking services, rural e-commerce and facilitating necessary policy and regulatory reforms. He is directly involved with implementing different Digital Financial Service initiatives like G2P digital payment, digitization of P2B and P2G payment, and the implementation of Agent Banking all over the country for the rural population. Besides that, he has engaged a lot of policy discussion and other DFS-related issues like Agent Banking Guidelines, e-KYC, Bangladesh National Financial Inclusion Strategy, Financial Literacy, Fintech and other issues related to financial inclusion. He maintains a close relationship with the Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, Public and Private Sector financial service providers and other relevant government and non-governmental organizations. He also has experience in designing and implementing Innovation in Public Service training for field-level government officers and developing e-Learning platforms for the Bangladesh Civil Service and educational institutes. Mr. Hasan earned his Master of Business Administration with a focus on management from Rajshahi University and a master’s degree in development studies from United International University, Dhaka.