Incumbent quarter master general Lieutenant General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed was named as the next Chief of Bangladesh Army for the next three years.
He would take up the post on June 24, said a defence ministry gazette notification on Thursday.
He would replace the incumbent Army Chief, General Aziz Ahmed.
Lieutenant General Shafiuddin would be promoted to the rank of General before taking up the position of the army chief, the notification reads.
Commissioned in the 9th Bangladesh Military Academy Long Course in 1983 in the infantry corps, Shafiuddin previously served as the general commanding officer of Army Training and Doctrine Command.
In 2012, he became the general officer commanding of the 19th Infantry Division.
In his career, Shafiuddin has also served as a director general of the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies and a senior directing staff of the National Defence College.
He also played a key role in UN peacekeeping missions as deputy force commander in the Central African Republic.
