M. Saifullah Panna

Secretary

Chief Advisor's Office

and

Chairman, APSCL

Mr. M. Saifullah Panna Joined Chief Adviser’s Office as the Secretary on 18 September 2024. He belongs to 11^th batch of BCS (Administration) Cadre.

Mr. Panna has an excellent track of professional experiences working in the different sectors of the Govt. He joined civil service as Assistant Commissioner in 1993. Then, he worked as an Assistant Secretary in the National Parliament of Bangladesh. At the Field Administration level, he was posted as a Senior Assistant Commissioner in the Deputy Commissioners office of Munshiganj, Dhaka and Mymensing. He also worked as the Upazila Nirbahi Officer in Saghata, Gaibandha. Besides, he worked in different Ministries including Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, Cabinet Division, Ministry of Public Administration and Internal Resources Division and Finance Division, Ministry of Finance.

He is an accomplished bureaucrat whose main focus on the Public Sector Reform specially in financial management and ICT. He contributed significantly in the National Pay Scale, 2015, Pension simplification process and Universal Pension Scheme while working in the Finance Division, Ministry of Finance. Besides, he also upgraded the Case Management System of Land Appeal Board to ease the process and to answer the queries by plaintiffs or defendants about the status of their land revenue and civil cases by making call to a hotline.

Mr. Panna obtained his Masters of Global E-policy and E-government in 2010 from South Korea. Previously, he obtained two post-graduation degrees i.e. Master in Governance Studies and a Master in Business Administration (MBA).  He participated in the training courses on Conflict Resolution and Negotiation techniques in MDIS, Singapore and Professional Development Program in Macquire University, Australia.