Team Bangladesh

1 Earth Holdings Inc. is incredibly honored and delighted to welcome Major General (Retd) Fazle Elahi Akbar as Chief Mission & Impact Adviser for Bangladesh & Africa.

The Founder and CEO of 1 Earth Holdings Inc. expresses profound gratitude to Major General (Retd) Fazle Elahi Akbar for his support for and solidarity with the mission of the proposed Biosphere Reserve Bank for the Global South and the Earth Cup - A Planetary Initiative for Climate Action and World Peace.

His vote of confidence represents a significant milestone for our climate initiatives and is expected to be instrumental to the success of the upcoming inaugural event of the Earth Cup at an iconic venue in Europe. 

Fazle Elahi Akbar is a former major general of the Bangladesh Army who served as military adviser to the UN Advance Mission in Sudan (UNAMIS). He served as the Force Commander in UNMIS from 2004 to 2006.

General Akbar served as security adviser to late Begum Khaleda Zia, former three-term prime minister of Bangladesh, from 21 October 2008 until the day she passed away on 30 December 2025. 

He is the chairman of "Foundation for Strategic and Development Studies", or FSDS, a think tank that carries out research on the state's policy making challenges, priorities, capacity development and system enhamcement for good governance, homeland defence, national resilience and sustainable development.

Fazle Elahi Akbar Featured on BBC news on 19 April 2007