Abu Taher (banker)


Abu Taher Miah was an industrialist and politician in Bangladesh. Miah was a founding member, Sponsor Director, and Chairman of the first private bank in Bangladesh fully owned by Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, National Bank Ltd, and a chairman and managing director of Orion Ltd, Universal Machinery Pvt Ltd, and Mohammad Basir & Co Pvt. He was also a social worker and philanthropist. He served in the Jatiya Sangsad, the national parliament of Bangladesh, as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member for Comilla-7.