Ms. Nurjahan Begum, one of the earliest associates of Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus during the establishment of Grameen Bank and former Health Advisor to the Interim Government of Bangladesh, served as Managing Director of the bank. She served as Principal of Grameen Bank Central Training Institute and Managing Director of Grameen Shakti and Grameen Shikkha and is currently working as Executive Vice Chairman of Grameen Shikkha besides serving several Grameen organizations as chairperson, director or trustee. She also served as director of Grameenphone Ltd., Bangladesh, Grameen Italia Foundation, Italy, and Center for Mass Education in Science (CMES), Bangladesh. She also served the Grameen Foundation, USA as director.

Ms. Nurjahan was awarded the Susan M. Davis Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 by Grameen Foundation, the World Summit Millennium Development Goals Award 2009, the Vision Award 2009, the Outstanding Contribution to Education Award at Ed Leadership 7th International Roundtable 2014, and the Yunus Social Business Summit Award in 2017. She participated in the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit held in Los Angeles in 2007 and was appointed President to the Foundation for Justice Prize giving ceremony held in Valencia, Spain in 2007. Soon after the last Interim Government of Bangladesh was formed in August 2024, she was appointed Health Advisor to the Government and worked in the position till the end of the Interim Government’s duration.

Ms. Nurjahan and her spouse, Mr. K M Ashaduzzaman, are blessed with a son, daughter-in-law, and three beautiful grandchildren.