Kazi Anis Ahmed

K. Anis Ahmed
Native name কাজী আনিস আহমেদ
Born 1970 (age 47–48)
Nationality Bangladeshi
Occupation Businessman, investor
Parent(s)
  • Kazi Shahid Ahmed (father)
Relatives Kazi Nabil Ahmed (Sibling)

Kazi Anis Ahmed (Bengali: কাজী আনিস আহমেদ) is a Bangladeshi businessman, investor and publisher who serves as the Director and Chief Strategist of Gemcon Group and CEO of organics, education and retail department of the same group.[1] He is the co-founder and the Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh[2] and the publisher of the English-language daily newspaper Dhaka Tribune and Bengali-language online newspaper Bangla Tribune[3] and the literary journal Bengal Lights.

Early life and education

Kazi Anis Ahmed was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father, Kazi Shahid Ahmed, is the founder and chairman of Gemcon Group, and also a writer and novelist in the Bengali language.[4] In his early life, Anis Ahmed was educated in Dhaka and later at Brown University, Washington University and New York University.[5]

Career

Business

Ahmed is the Director and CEO of Organics, Retail and Education for Gemcon Group in Dhaka, and is the Director of the Kazi and Kazi Tea Estate, Ltd. (KKTE). At Kazi and Kazi Tea Estate, Ahmed has helped establish the guiding organic values and policies that allowed KKTE to emerge as the first successful organic tea estate in Bangladesh. He personally oversaw the international SGS Organic and USDA Organic certification processes. He is the Co-Founder of the Teatulia brand of Kazi and Kazi Tea, which sells in the USA, UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Kuwait. Teatulia is the only Bangladeshi tea brand to sell in premium stores around the world, including Whole Foods in the US and Harrods in the UK.[6]

Ahmed runs Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate Ltd. with his family. Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate is the first USDA and SGS-certified 100% organic tea garden and cooperative in northern Bangladesh that is the single source for the tea company Teatulia. Teatulia tea is distributed in Bangladesh, the United Kingdom, the United States, and will soon be available in Japan.[7]

He is the co-founder of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and the Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the same university.

Publishing

Ahmed is the publisher of the English-language daily newspaper Dhaka Tribune and Bengali-language online newspaper Bangla Tribune[3] and the literary journal Bengal Lights.[8]

Writings

Apart from his career as a businessman and an investor, Ahmed also occasionally writes particularly in his second language English. His first collection of short stories, Good Night, Mr. Kissinger, was published by The University Press Limited[9] in Bangladesh and launched at the Hay Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2012.[10]Ahmed's first novel, The World in My Hands, was published by Random House India in December 2013. The book is a political satire that charts the fate of two friends – a newspaper editor and a successful property developer – whose relationship is bitterly tested when they find themselves on opposite sides of a crisis that upends their country's social order.[5][11]

Literary works

  • Good Night, Mr. Kissinger (Unnamed Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-939419-04-0
  • The World in My Hands (Random House India, 2013)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to Gemcon Group". www.gemcon.group. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  2. ↑ "Board of Trustees - University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh". University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  3. 1 2 "Bangla Tribune - Bangla news, Behind The News". banglatribune.com. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Kazi Shahid Ahmed's new novel 'Daate Kata Pencil' unveiled | Dhaka Tribune". www.dhakatribune.com. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  5. 1 2 Fayeka Zabeen Siddiqua (3 January 2014). "The World in My Hands". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Ahmed, Kazi Anis
  7. ↑ "A Growing Venture". SUCCESS Magazine. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "K Anis Ahmed's novel The World In My Hands launched". The Daily Star. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014.
  9. ↑ Sameer Rahim (17 November 2012). "Hay Dhaka 2012: The Assassin's Creed". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  10. ↑ David Shook (20 November 2012). "English-Language Literature Finds Its Place in Bangladesh". HuffPost. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
  11. ↑ "Mihir S Sharma: Writing a country". Business Standard. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2017.
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