Zara Jabeen Mahbub

Zara Jabeen Mahbub (, born 8 March 1976) is a Bangladeshi corporate executive and politician. , Mahbub is the CEO of Dun and Bradstreet Data and Analytics Pvt Ltd. Prior to this, she joined Brac Bank in March 2009 and went on to become their head of communication and service quality in 2015. She is a former 12th Jatiya Sangsad member elected for the Reserved Women's Seat-7 (covering Chapainawabganj) served in 2024 representing Bangladesh Awami League.

Background and early life Zara Jabeen Chowdhury was born on 8 March 1976 in the village of Monakosha in Rajshahi district (now in Chapai Nawabganj District) in Bangladesh. She belongs to an aristocratic Bengali family of Muslim Chowdhuries who served as the former Zamindars of Monakosha. Her grandfather, Murtaza Raza Choudhry, was a former finance minister of East Pakistan and a member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan. Her great-great-grandfather, Ismail Hossain Choudhry, was the zamindar of Kotalpokhar in Bihar. She was the niece of Chief Justice Mainur Reza Chowdhury.

Chowdhury's father, Qayum Reza Chowdhury, is a businessman and educationist. He was a treasurer in 2018 and chairperson in 2016-2017 of the board of trustees of the University of Asia Pacific in 2018, a former president of Bangladesh Garment Buying House Association (BGBHA) in 2005. Qayum was a defense witness of the 2013 trial of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury at the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on charges of crimes against humanity, genocide, abetment and complicity to commit crimes.

In the early 1990s, Chowdhury got into fashion and modeling with the help of her relative, Nasrine Karim, daughter of Humayun Rashid Choudhury. She then went to the Assumption University in Bangkok but returned to Dhaka after two and a half years because of her father's health concerns. She received her MBA from the Haas School of Business of California University Berkeley with focus on strategic marketing and entrepreneurship in May 2008.

Personal life Mahbub has two daughters, Zaina (age ) and Maryam (age ), and one son, Niyam (age ).