Sajjadul Hassan

Sajjadul Hassan (born 11 January 1961) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Netrokona-4 constituency since August 2023. Prior to this position, he served as a bureaucrat and the chairperson of Bangladesh Biman airlines. He is a former Senior Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office.

Early life
Sajjad was born on 11 January 1961 in Mohanganj Upazila, Netrokona District. His father, Akhlakul Hossain Ahmed, was a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly. His brother, Justice Obaidul Hassan, is the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He completed his SSC and HSC from Mohanganj Government Pilot High School and Dhaka College respectively. He worked to introduce double shift in Mohanganj Government Pilot High School and renovate Shiyaljani canal in Mohanganj Municipality.

Career
Sajjad had served as the District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar District and Sylhet District. Hassan was made the Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from the Division Commissioner of Sylhet Division on 25 February 2015. In 2009, four former Awami League members of parliament accused him to misbehave with a veteran freedom fighter while Hassan was serving as the Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet.

On 26 January 2018, Sajjad was promoted from Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to the acting secretary of the Prime Minister's Office. Tofazzel Hossain Miah, previously the Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, replaced him as the Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He was a special guest at the launching of the call centre service number 333 on 12 April 2018 by Sajeeb Wazed. On 25 December 2019, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Secretary.

Sajjad was appointed the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the state owned Bangladesh Biman airlines on 27 January 2020 by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. He replaced Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari. Senior Secretary at the Ministry of Aviation, Mohibul Haque, supported steps to keep Biman Bangladesh under government control in 2020 and prevent its privatisation under the chairpersonship of Sajjad. He oversaw a Dash 8-400, named Dhrubatara, aircraft joining the fleet of Bangladesh Biman in 2020 purchased through a government to government agreement between Bangladesh and Canada.

Sajjad is the president of Bangladesh Agricultural Economists Association.

In September 2022, the government broke the trustee board of Manarat International University and created a new board which included Sajjad.