Ms. Zaheda Parveen is working as Additional Secretary of Cabinet Division of the Government of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh.
She achieved LL.B (Hons) and LL.M from University of Dhaka with distinction. Zaheda Parveen also completed an LL.M in International Economic and Business Law and Master of International Human Resource Management from Kyushu University and Greenwich University, in Japan and the UK respectively. She is a life-member of Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) and member of Bar Council of Bangladesh. Zaheda is a member of BCS (Administration) cadre and belongs to 15th batch. Throughout her 30 years long career as a civil bureaucrat, she has experience of working at field level; she was posted as Assistant Commissioner in Pabna, Dinajpur and Natore districts. She also served as Assistant Commissioner (Land). Parveen discharged function as Magistrate First Class for nine long years. Zaheda Parveen has also worked at different ministries like Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of Agriculture and Ministry of Public Administration.
Parveen has experience of working at Ministry of Public Administration for over a decade on organizational setup of public organizations and human resource management.
At present she is working as the Wing Chief of Law wing at Cabinet Division, where one of her important duty is working as the Convener of Inter-ministry committee for Draft Legislation. She is a resource person at different training institutions.
Zaheda Parveen has taken part in multiple training programs both at home and abroad. She completed in-service training like Foundation Training course, Advanced Course on Administration and Development (ACAD) and Senior Staff Course (SSC) at Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC). She also attended the Law and Administration Course at BCSAA where she stood first and was adjudged the best trainee. She completed training courses in Central Queensland University and University of New South Wales in Australia on Executive Leadership and Administration. She received training at Rome Business School, Italy on Public Procurement. She attended different conferences in Nairobi, Kenya organized by United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) on environmental legislation, 3R Conference in Tokyo, Japan and Asian Public Governance Forum on Public Innovation Conference in Indonesia and so on.
She is happily married to Mr. A H M Shafiquzzaman, Secretary of Ministry of Labor and Employment and is blessed with one son. During her leisure time, she likes to travel and has been to many countries across four continents such as India, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Kenya, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Netherland and Australia.