Syed Refaat Ahmed[a] (born 28 December 1958) is a Bangladeshi lawyer and jurist who is the current and 25th chief justice of Bangladesh.

[8][4] Justice Ahmed was awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship in Public International Law while at The Fletcher School.

[4] He also worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong and Washington, D.C.[4] In 2002, Ahmed became an advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.

[4] In 2008, commonly known as the UCBL Case, the first of its kind considered under the Companies Act, 1994 read with the Depository Act, 1999 and the Depository (User) Regulations, 2003, Justice Ahmed, through his verdict, ensured the protection of the interests of small-time shareholders against machinations of major equity investors to defeat the interests of the former group's divided entitlements by resort to a pre-fixed Record Date as determinant of closure of the company's Share Register (A.B.M.

It was found that between the government and a given telecommunication operator there is indeed a place for an intermediate authority like the BTRC that exercises statutory power and engages in taxable economic activity.

Salim and Ahmed ordered the government to complete the construction of the Central Effluent Treatment Plant at the Savar tannery estate within four weeks.

Salim and Ahmed issued a two-month injunction on member of parliament Mahbubur Rahman Talukder from holding the post of chairman of 11 educational institutions in Patuakhali District.

[20] Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on 17 December 2004 allocated a plot in the third phase of Uttara Model Town (sector 15) to Md.

Iqbal Kabir and Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, which ordered Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha to accept Choudhury's payments in August 2019.

Salim and Ahmed declared the import of MT Producer for the shipbreaking industry due to the ship being contaminated with radioactive material.