Shahidul Islam is a board-level Corporate Affairs and Sustainability executive with over 20 years of leadership experience across multinational and conglomerate environments in Bangladesh. He currently serves as Director, Corporate Affairs & Sustainability at Syngenta Bangladesh Limited – a global Multinational organization , where he is also a Board Member and a member of Country Leadership team.

Shahidul specializes in government relations, regulatory strategy, sustainability, reputational management , public policy advocacy, and market access. His career is defined by tangible, measurable impact - eliminating duties and taxes, resolving complex regulatory constraints, driving policy reform, enabling new product market access, and embedding sustainability into core business strategy. These contributions have earned him multiple prestigious recognitions, including the Hunger for Growth Award (2023), Business Sustainability Award (2024), ETR Award (2025), and Sustainability Award (2025).

Prior to Syngenta, he held senior management positions in regulatory and external affairs at British American Tobacco Bangladesh and Rahimafrooz Bangladesh Limited, where he delivered significant policy wins that were instrumental in sustaining and advancing business continuity. Shahidul holds an MBA and a shorter degree in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge.

He is a Certified Public Relations Officer and an active member of the Public Affairs Council USA, EuroCham Bangladesh, FICCI and the UN Global Compact Bangladesh Network. He has represented Bangladesh at international policy forums, training programmes, and conferences across South Korea, China, Japan, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Nepal, Sweden, and the USA - bringing a strong global perspective to his work at the intersection of business, policy, and sustainability.

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