Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad (born 2 December 1943) is a retired Bangladeshi civil servant and former Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh.
[1] Ahmad studied chemistry at University of Dhaka and secured first class second position in the MSc examination.
[2] During the war he served as a zonal coordinating officer of the freedom fighters who took shelter in Agartala, India.
Ahmad served as the Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate of Cumilla district, Director General of NGO Affairs Bureau, Chairman of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh and Chairman of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation.
[9][10] Under Ahmad's leadership, the Election Commission (EC) launched the distribution of machine-readable smart national identity (NID) cards among 10 crore citizens, replacing the existing paper-laminated cards[11] and updated the voter list.