Towfika Aftab, one of the sponsor directors of Citizens Bank, has recently been elected chairman of the bank.

A lawyer by profession, she served as a government appointed legal prosecutor in the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders' murder cases.

She obtained a master's degree in political science and bachelor of law degree from the University of Dhaka.

Towfika is also the founder chairman of Ethnica School.

Citizens Bank was listed as a scheduled bank by Bangladesh Bank on December 15, bringing the total number of scheduled banks in the country to 61.