Mr. Zakir Ahmed Khan is an Independent Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee, he is also the member of the Investment Committee and the Risk Management Committee of the Board of Directors of Pioneer Insurance Company Limited.

Mr. Khan is a former Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh. He carries with him vast experience and expertise gathered from home and abroad.

Mr. Khan did BA (Hons) and Masters in Economics from the University of Dhaka in 1967 and 1968 respectively. He studied Development Economics and Development Administration as a Hubert Humphrey North-South Fellow at the Colorado State University, USA. He also did Master of Business Administration from Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium.

Before joining Government Service in 1970, he briefly worked as a Research Associate in the Bureau of Economic Research and Institute of Education and Research and Lecturer in Economics, University of Dhaka. He also worked as a part time Lecturer in the Department of Finance, University of Dhaka.

Mr. Khan held various senior level positions in the Ministries of Finance, Commerce, Establishment, Energy, Civil Aviation and Tourism, Cabinet Division and Bangladesh Audit and Accounts Department. He served as Finance Secretary and Secretary, Internal Resources Division and Chairman, National Board of Revenue for five years. He also briefly worked for a number of UN Agencies. Prior to his retirement in early 2009, he served as Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank in Washington DC, USA for three and a half years.

He contributed a number of articles on public policy and public sector financial management to a number of national and international journals. He also made several key note presentations on public sector reforms and financial management in seminars and workshops at home and abroad.