DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh economist Ahsan H Mansur said on Tuesday that the country’s caretaker government has appointed him as the new governor of the central bank.
Mansur told Reuters that the finance adviser in the interim government had informed him of the decision.
His appointment follows weeks of student-led protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to quit and flee the country last week. The protests widened to target officials appointed during her term, including Bangladesh Bank Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder, who resigned.
Mansur, a former economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a founding member of non-profit Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh.
(Reporting by Ruma Paul and Shivam Patel; Editing by YP Rajesh)
