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{{short description|Bangladeshi economist}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name=Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri
| native_name = শেগুফতা বখ্‌ত চৌধুরী
| native_name_lang = bn
| image =
| office = Governor of [[Bangladesh Bank]]
| term_start = 12 April 1987
| term_end = 19 December 1992
| predecessor = [[Mohammad Nurul Islam]]
| successor = [[Khorshed Alam]]
| office2 = Advisor of [[Caretaker government of Bangladesh]]
| term_start2 = 30 March 1996
| term_end2 = 23 June 1996
| birth_date = 1931
| birth_place = Bongaon, [[Habiganj District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| relatives = [[Syed Mujtaba Ali]] (uncle)<br/>[[Syed Murtaza Ali]] (uncle)<br/>[[Syed Mohammad Ali]] (cousin)<br/>[[Syed Muazzem Ali]] (cousin)
| alma_mater = [[Murari Chand College]], [[University of Dhaka]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2020|11|11|1931|df=y}}
| death_place =[[United Hospital, Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]
}}

'''Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri''' (known as '''S B Chaudhuri'''; 1931 – 11 November 2020)<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 November 2020|title=Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri passes away|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/news/shegufta-bakht-chaudhuri-passes-away-1993621|access-date=2020-11-12|work=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> was a Bangladeshi economist who served as the fourth governor of [[Bangladesh Bank]], the central bank of Bangladesh during 1987–1992, and was also the advisor of the first caretaker government of Bangladesh in 1996.<ref name=nomore>{{cite news|url=https://bangla.bdnews24.com/economy/article1825718.bdnews|script-title=bn:সাবেক গভর্নর এস বি চৌধুরী আর নেই|work=bdnews24|access-date=2020-11-11|language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Governors of BB|url=https://www.bb.org.bd/aboutus/bbgovernors.php|access-date=2016-01-06|publisher=Bangladesh Bank}}</ref><ref>{{cite Banglapedia|article=Bangladesh_Bank}}</ref>

==Background==
Shegufta's father was Dewan Mamun Chaudhuri and his paternal grandfather was Khan Bahadur Wasil Chaudhuri.<ref name=nomore/> His mother was Syeda Zebunessa Khatun, daughter of Khan Bahadur Syed Sikandar Ali. Writers [[Syed Mujtaba Ali]] and [[Syed Murtaza Ali]] were Shegufta's maternal uncles.<ref name=nomore/> He traced his maternal descent from Shah Ahmed Mutawakkil, a local holy man and a [[Syed]] of Taraf, though apparently unrelated to Taraf's ruling [[Taraf Kingdom#Syed rule|Syed dynasty]].<ref>{{citation|first=Nurur Rahman|last=Khan|editor=Sharif Uddin Ahmed|title=Syed Mujtaba Ali|journal=Sylhet: History and Heritage|pages=824–25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_BtAAAAMAAJ|date=1999|publisher=Bangladesh Itihas Samiti|location=[[Sylhet]]|isbn=978-984-31-0478-6}}</ref>

Shegufta was brought up in his home village of Bongaon, [[Nabiganj Upazila]] of [[Habiganj District]] in the Division of [[Sylhet]], [[Bangladesh]]. He was the eldest of five siblings, having had one younger brother and four sisters.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

==Education==
He received a BA (Hons) in Economics from the [[University of Dhaka]] in the early 1950s. His Masters in International Relations at the same university was not completed due to illness. He later received a MPA (Master of Public Administration) from [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] in 1967.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

==Career==
He was initially a journalist at the ''Morning News'' newspaper in the early 1950s before joining the Pakistan Taxation Service in 1955 after completing the [[Central Superior Services|CSS]] examinations. He served in different branches of the Pakistan Government service as a section officer and then as a deputy secretary before he went to attend the Harvard School of Government. He was subsequently employed in a number of roles in the Pakistan and later Bangladesh governments. These include:{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}
*First Secretary (Commercial Attaché) at the Pakistan Embassy at [[Belgrade]], Yugoslavia, 1967–70.
*Chief Controller of Imports and Exports, Govt. of Pakistan, 1970–71.
*Director-General, Export Promotion Bureau, Govt. of Bangladesh for a brief period.
*Chief Controller of Imports and Exports, Govt. of Bangladesh, 1973-1974
*Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce and Secretary of Internal Resources Division, Ministry of Finance, 1974–77
*Chairman, National Board of Revenue, Govt. of Bangladesh, 1981–87
*Governor, Bangladesh Bank, 1987–92.

After he retired from Bangladesh Bank, he started a column with the ''[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|Daily Star]]'' titled "Along My Way". He served as an Adviser (the equivalent of a cabinet minister) for three months in the caretaker government of 1996, which ran the country and supervised the parliamentary elections. He was also the Adviser to City Bank, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from {{circa|1993/94}} to 1998.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

==Death==
Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri died on 11 November 2020 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was survived by his wife, son and daughter as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

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