Jahrat Adib Chowdhury

Barrister Jahrat Adib Chowdhury is the member of parliament (MP) for reserved Women's Seat-27 in the 13th Parliament. She entered Parliament for the first time as a nominee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). On 13 July 2026 she was elected chair of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jahrat Adib Chowdhury was born on 26 March 1983 in Gangkul village, Barlekha upazila, Moulvibazar district. Her father, Advocate Ebadur Rahman Chowdhury, is a four-time member of parliament, a former MP for Moulvibazar-1 and a former State Minister for Food and Disaster Management. Her mother is Sawda Ebad Chowdhury. One of four sisters, Jahrat grew up in Moulvibazar itself.

She became a Barrister-at-Law at Lincoln's Inn in the United Kingdom and obtained an LLM in commercial law from the University of Derby. She also completed a Senior Executive Leadership course at Harvard Business School and an Advanced Certificate in Business Administration at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka.

She began her career in the corporate sector. She worked in various important positions at the pharmaceutical company Novartis Bangladesh and at Grameenphone. In 2014 she joined Banglalink as Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary, and in April 2025 she became the company's deputy chief executive officer. She is the first woman deputy CEO in the country's telecommunications sector. She is a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and a member of the Supreme Court Bar Association and the Moulvibazar District Bar Association. She has visited more than 30 countries for her work and is associated with various social, educational and public welfare trusts.

For the reserved seats for women in the 13th Parliament, the BNP nominated her from the Moulvibazar and Habiganj area. She became the MP for reserved Women's Seat-27 through a vote of members of parliament. Her husband, Barrister Muhammad Zisan Haider, is a deputy attorney general at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. The couple have one son.

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