Anis A Khan, managing director of Mutual Trust Bank, has been elected as the chairman of the Association of Bankers, Bangladesh (ABB) for 2016-17.

The forum of the managing directors of commercial banks also elected Mohammad Abdul Mannan, managing director of Islami

Bank; Abdus Salam, managing director of Janata Bank; and Syed Mahbubur Rahman, managing director of Dhaka Bank, as its vice chairmen.

The election took place at an annual general meeting of the forum at Spectra Convention Centre in Dhaka yesterday.

Ali Reza Iftekhar, managing director of Eastern Bank and outgoing chairman of ABB, presided over the meeting.

At the meeting, Arif Quadri, deputy managing director of United Commercial Bank, has been made the secretary general and Haider Ali Miah, managing director of Exim Bank, got the post of the treasurer.