Board of Trustees

Dr Ashfaq M Khan FRCOG

Chair

Dr Khan is a doctor by profession. He graduated from Dhaka Medical College in 1996 and moved to The UK in 2000. He is a senior Consultant of Women’s Health with special interest in Cervical cancer prevention.

Ashfaq is the CEO and Medical Director of Harley street Gynaecology and the former Head of Lower Genital Tract Disease and Colposcopy unit  of  London based Whittington NHS Hospital.  He is a Fellow of the Royal college of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (FRCOG) and also the Founding Chair of Bangladesh Liaison Group of the Royal college. He is also a director of Base care Foundation UK.

Dr Ziaul Haq FRCP

Vice Chair

Dr Haq is a specialist in Respiratory Medicine who graduated from Dhaka Medical college in 1991. He is a fellow of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP). Zia worked as Consultant Physician in the UK before moving to Dhaka Bangladesh in 2022. He is currently a senior Consultant at Evercare Hospital, Dhaka.Zia has been running a community clinic in his village near Dhaka for more than 8 years.

Mrs Ashrifa S Bashar MBA

Treasurer

Ashrifa has been involved in several successfull philanthropic projects over the last 20 years in Bangladesh  .She graduated from Dhaka university in Biochemistry and completed her MBA from NSU, Dhaka in 1998.

Mr Naimul B Chowdhury MBA

Mr Chowdhury is a renowned businessman with vast experience to run group of industries in garments sector in Bangladesh. He completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1994 from The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka. Naimul is well known for his philanthropic activities in rural Bangladesh.

Mr Ariful I Chowdhury MBA

Mr Chowdhury is a retired banker with special interest in Philanthropic activities. He graduated as an engineer from BUET ( Engineering University in Bangladesh ) and later on completed Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1994 from The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka. Arif held senior executive positions at Standard Chartered Bank, Meghna Bank, Bank Asia and Brac Bank, currently involved in IT business.

Mr S Mustafizur Rahman MSC

Mr Rahman is a Silicon Valley based Software Engineer in San Francisco USA . He has Master of Science (M. Sc) in Computer Science from Stanford University, U.S.A. Mustafiz supervised IT related issues of  Base Care Foundation. He is actively involved in multiple charity  organisations in USA which are actively engaged in Bangladesh.

Dr Diptee Khan MD

Dr Khan is a doctor by profession with special interest in Women’s Health. She is a medical graduate from Kiev Medical University of Ukraine. Later on, Diptee worked in NHS England in women’s health for decades. She regularly organises and anchors TV health talk show in UK based TV channel ( Channel S) where she offers health advise to Bengali Speaking diasporas.

Diptee is a social activists and executive member of Bangladesh Medical Society UK . She was project supervisor for our community clinics in Bangladesh during first phase of BCF