Mr. Ala Ahmad, FCA is the Chief Executive Officer of MetLife Bangladesh. He has more than 25 years of experience in diverse areas including finance, strategy and general management of life insurance business at home and abroad. He has held a variety of senior leadership positions managing MetLife businesses across the globe. He lived  in four countries (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Bangladesh and Nepal) and managed businesses at different lifecycles (start-up, growth, maturity and exit) creating impact in the financial service sector and economy. 

Mr. Ahmad joined MetLife Bangladesh in 1999 and subsequently, in 2004, he became Financial Controller of two markets, Bangladesh and Nepal. In 2011, he became the Chief Financial Officer of MetLife’s South Asia region, and after that, he was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of MetLife Nepal in 2013. For his next international senior leadership role, Mr. Ahmad moved to Malaysia in 2017 as Vice President & Head of Strategy, Business Planning and Transformation at AmMetLife Insurance Berhad. He also supported the Head of Strategic Growth Markets, Asia as the Chief of Staff and Head of Strategy during 2019-2020 which comprised of seven markets including China and India.

In 2019, Mr. Ahmad was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of MetLife Hong Kong and served as the member of the Board of Directors. He returned from Hong Kong and assumed his current role of Chief Executive Officer of MetLife Bangladesh in January 2021.

Throughout his career, Mr. Ahmad has been a keen advocate of creating enterprise value by bringing together customer insights and focused approach in leading culturally and professionally diverse teams to drive performance for delivering sustainable business growth.  

In addition to his current role, Mr. Ahmad is a director of Foreign Investors’ Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) in Bangladesh, and member of the Executive Committee of Bangladesh Employers’ Federation (BEF) and former Treasurer and member of the Executive Committee of American Chamber of Commerce in Bangladesh (AmCham). With his patronage, MetLife has also significantly contributed towards various sustainability initiative including poverty reduction, employment generation, and environmental protection.

He holds a Master’s degree from the National University, Bangladesh. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA) from the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) and Alumni of National University of Singapore Business School, Ala Ahmad also attended MetLife’s on-campus Executive Leadership program at Harvard Business School. He is also a Fellow (with distinction) of the LOMA, USA and Fellow of Financial Services Institute, USA.