Mr. Mollah M Amzad Hossain
(Director)
Mr. Mollah M Amzad Hossain is the founding Executive Director of the Forum for Energy Reporters Bangladesh. He is the former Chairman of the organization. He is one of the members of a National Committee of the government of Bangladesh formed to recommend policy decisions on coal exploration. Mr. Hossain has been working in Bangladesh’s media sector since 1982. With his long 31 years of experiences, he has been publishing and editing the country’s lone energy sector magazine – Energy & Power – since 2003.
As he moved to the capital Dhaka from Rajshahi, he joined the Daily Azad, the oldest vernacular daily of the country, in 1988. In 1992, he joined the Daily Banglabazar Patrika and worked as the Chief Reporter. He covered energy, trade and business, environment, politics and aviation sectors during his reporting career and covered several international and regional events in the fields of energy and trade and business. During his colorful career, he involved himself with the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB), an umbrella platform for more than 12 hundred of development organizations, as Media Relations Consultant. He also worked for the daily Amader Shomoy as Deputy Editor and the daily Amader Orthoniti as acting Editor. The Energy & Power has been the Media Partner of the German GIZ Since 2006 for promotion of Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency and Conservation. The paper is also working as Media Partner of UNDP Bangladesh and Petrobangla.
He has been nominated as an Independent Director of the Company in October, 2019.