UCB Director Farid Uddin dies of Covid-19 

Farid Uddin Ahmed, FCMA, director at the United Commercial Bank (UCB), has died from coronavirus infection on Thursday at Anwer Khan Modern Hospital in the capital. 

The board of directors, management and the UCB family mourn for the departed soul, read a press release issued today.     

Farid Uddin, also a member of Risk Management Committee of UCB, joined multinational pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 1969 and worked there for about 39 years and led Accounts Department, Internal Audit Department and Supply Chain Department. For about two decades, he was a course instructor of ICMAB and also held the position of Chairman of Chittagong Branch Council of ICMAB for two terms.

He obtained Honour's and Master's Degree in Accounting from the University of Dhaka. 

Farid Uddin Ahmed was born in February 1948 in a respectable family of Chattogram. He left behind one son and a daughter along with many well-wishers.