Ahmed Ataul Hakeem

Ahmed Ataul Hakeem is a retired civil servant and he was the 10th Comptroller and Auditor General of Bangladesh. He is Controller of Examinations of BRAC University.

Early life Hakeem studied at Mirzapur Cadet College from 1965 to 1970.

Hakeem was the first Chief Accounts Officer of Bangladesh. From 2009 to 2012, he was a member of the governing board of Asian Association of Supreme Audit Institutions.

In January 2012, Hakeem was placed in the Search Committee for the commissioners of the Bangladesh Election Commission. In December 2012, Hakeem presented the audit report to Sheikh Hasina. He had raised 605 objections over irregularities worth 48.11 billion BDT. In April 2013, Masud Ahmed replaced him as auditor general of Bangladesh.

From December 2013 to November 2017, Hakeem was an ombudsman at BRAC. In January 2018, he was appointed Controller of Examinations at BRAC University. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh.

On 23 December 2019, Hakeem joined the General Board of RDRS Bangladesh.

In September 2022, Hakeem in an interview with The Business Standard disagreed with the US Fiscal Transparency Report of the United States Department of State which described the audit department of Bangladesh as not up to international standards.