TIB started its activities in 1997, under founding chairman Syed Humayun Kabir.

[1] In 2016, it criticised new government rules on NGOs that received foreign funding.

[2] It also asked the government to not take a 2 billion dollar development loan from the world Bank.

[2] This law was created after TIB Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman called the country's Parliament a 'puppet show stage'.

[3] Board of Trustees, the highest policy making body of Transparency International Bangladesh, comprises: