Ziaul Haque Khondker. immediate past managing director of Investment Corporation of Bangladesh (ICB), took over as chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday.

The government appointed him Sunday the capital market regulator's chief.

The SEC top post fell vacant when the contract of Faruq Ahmad Siddiqi, the immediate pas( chairman, expired on March 14.

A post-graduate in Economics from Dhaka University, he joined the ICB in 1977 as a research officer.

He joined the Bangladesh Shlipa Rin Sangstha as general managerin 1996.

He returned to the ICB in 1998. He has been appointed managing director of the ICB in 2000. In between 1998 and 2000, he worked for five months in the SEC on a special assignment.