Mashrur Arefin has recently been appointed Additional Managing Director (AMD) of the City Bank Limited, the bank said in a statement yesterday. He was working in the same bank as Deputy Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer.

Arefin joined City Bank in 2007 as Head of Retail Banking. He is also the Chief Communication Officer of the bank and a Director of the Bank’s subsidiary remittance company in Malaysia.

An MA from Dhaka University and an MBA from Victoria University in Australia, Arefin started his career as a management trainee with erstwhile ANZ Grindlays Bank in 1995. He also served Standard Chartered Bank, Qatar, American Express Bank and Citibank N. A., Bangladesh and Eastern Bank too.

He is also a renowned writer. His books in Bangla ‘Complete Stories of Franz Kafka’ and ‘Iliad of Homer’ earned major literary awards.