Masud Ahmed

Masud Ahmed is a retired bureaucrat and former comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh. He is an author and novelist.

Early life Ahmed was born in 1955 in Jamalpur District, East Pakistan, Pakistan.

Career Ahmed joined the Audit and Accounts Cadre of the Bangladesh Civil Service in 1981. He was stationed as assistant accountant general. He worked as the deputy accountant general. He oversaw the first performance audit of Bangladesh taking into consideration climate. He was a member of the 2017 search committee of the Bangladesh Election Commission. He served as the comptroller and auditor general of Bangladesh till 26 April 2018. He was succeeded by Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury.

Ahmed has published seven novels, 100 short stories, and wrote the story of eight television films. He won the Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq Literary Award for his writing. Indira Gandhi Culture Centre held an event on his songs in November 2015.