Asif Saleh

Saleh attended the New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business from 2000 to 2003 and obtained a Master of Business Administration in Marketing and Management. Before that, he attended North Carolina State University from 1992 to 1996 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.^[10] He studied at St. Joseph Higher Secondary School from 1981 to 1989.^[11]

Asif Saleh worked at Goldman Sachs for 12 years, ending his term as an Executive Director. Prior to that, he worked at Glaxo Wellcome, NorTel, and IBM.^[12] In 2001, Saleh founded Drishtipat, which supported members of the Bangladeshi community living outside Bangladesh to support social development in Bangladesh.^[13][14]

He joined the Access to Information (A2i) Program at the Bangladesh Prime Minister’s Office in 2008, leading the policy effort to expand affordable broadband connectivity across Bangladesh.^[15] He joined BRAC as a Director in 2011, and in 2012 he was made a Senior Director.^[16] In 2019, he was appointed as the Executive Director of BRAC Bangladesh.^[17]

Saleh chairs BRAC IT Services Limited,^[18] BRAC Kumon Limited, co-chairs BRACNet,^[19] and is on the Board of BRAC Bank,^[20] bKash,^[21] and edotco Bangladesh Ltd. He is the board chair of non-profit organisations Bangladesh Institute of Informatics and Development (IID).

Saleh is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington.^[22] He is a member of the Millions Learning International Advisory Group at the Brookings Institution, the advisory group of South Africa-based Innovation Edge,^[23] the global board for Generation Unlimited,^[24] and a member of the global governing council of Water Resource Group 2030.^[25]

Saleh was recognised by Asia Society’s Asia 21 program in 2008, the Bangladeshi American Foundation in 2007, selected as an Asia 21 Fellow in 2012^[26] and as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013.^[27]