Nadia Nivin appointed IDRA chairman
Nivin previously served as a member of the Election System Reform Commission under the interim government
Mir Nadia Nivin has been appointed as the new chairman of the Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority (IDRA), according to a gazette notification issued by the Financial Institutions Division of the Ministry of Finance today (16 June).
She succeeds Aslam Alam, who resigned from the position on 2 March.
Nivin previously served as a member of the Election System Reform Commission under the interim government. In October 2025, she also joined Delta Life Insurance as an independent director.
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She earned her master's degree from California State University, Sacramento, in the United States in 2006. She later completed another master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University.
Nivin began her professional career in August 2007 as a programme officer at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Around the same period, she also worked with the Bangladesh government's Access to Information (a2i) programme.
Since 2009, she has held various international assignments, beginning in Germany. She later joined the UNDP headquarters in New York as part of the Global Elections Team, providing policy support to UNDP country offices worldwide on election-related issues.
In 2013, she worked in Afghanistan as an Election Programme Specialist, focusing on elections, parliamentary affairs, public financial management, local government, administrative capacity building and gender equality.
She subsequently served in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where she worked on rehabilitation programmes for displaced populations.
In 2018, Nivin was based in Malaysia, collaborating with the Election Commission, Parliament, the Prime Minister's Office and anti-corruption policy institutions.
In March 2020, she joined operations in Myanmar, where she worked on digital healthcare initiatives, cross-border immunisation programmes and a United Nations artificial intelligence-based human rights initiative.
Her appointment comes at a time when the insurance sector regulator faces increasing expectations to strengthen governance, oversight and consumer protection within the country's insurance industry.
