The Thirty-Third Annual General Meeting (AGM) of MIDAS was held on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at the MIDAS Head Office in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. Ms. Parveen Mahmud FCA was re-elected as Chairman of Micro Industries Development Assistance and Services (MIDAS) by the Board of Directors at the 379th Board Meeting of the organization held subsequently.

All the Board Members warmly greeted her as the re-elected Chairman. The Board meeting was attended by members of the MIDAS Board of Directors, including Ms. Zahida Ispahani, Mr. Bazlur Rahman Khan, Mr. Anjan Chowdhury, Ms. Sabina Alam, Dr. S. M. Akbar, Mr. Ghulam Rahman and Dr. Md. Abdul Karim.

Ms. Mahmud FCA, the re-elected Chairman of MIDAS, was also the Chairperson, Board of Governors, RDRS Bangladesh. She was the Founding Managing Director, Grameen Telecom Trust, and Deputy Managing Director of PKSF. In her varied professional career, Ms. Mahmud has been working with social innovations, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development at grass-root level. She was a practising chartered accountant. Ms. Mahmud was the first woman President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for the year 2011, and the first female board member of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), apex accounting professional body of the SAARC and served ICAB Council for three terms. She was the Founding Chairperson of CA Female Forum-Women in Leadership Committee, ICAB till 2019 and was the Vice Chairperson of the Women in Leadership Committee of SAFA from 2018-20. She sits in numerous Boards including BRAC International, Manusher Jonnyo Foundation, PKSF, CPD, Ghashful, Heroes for All, Cider International School, etc. She is an Independent Director of Apex Footwear Ltd., Berger Paints Bangladesh Ltd. And Mario Bangladesh Ltd. She was the Chairperson of Shasha Denims Ltd., Underprivileged Children Education Program (UCEP), and Bangladesh and Acid Survivors’ Foundation. Ms. Mahmud was the member, National Advisory Panel for SME Development of Bangladesh and founding board member of SME Foundation. She is the recipient of few accolades for social development and women empowerment: Chittagong Digest Women’s Day 2020 Award, Anannya Top Ten Women- 2018 Award in 2019; Joya Alokito Nari- 2018 Award from RTV, “Women at Work -2017” Award from Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and “Women of Inspiration Awards-2017” from the Bangladesh Organisation for Learning & Development (BOLD) and Rokeya Shining Personality Award 2006 from Narikantha Foundation