“Development is not charity.” The banker who now runs the world’s largest Global South-led nonprofit.

Mr. Asif Saleh has been executive director of BRAC since August 2019. In May 2026 TIME named him to its TIME100 Philanthropy list, the first Bangladeshi to appear on it, for championing BRAC’s locally led development model at a time of deep cuts in foreign aid. In October he signed a new AUD 18 million agreement with Australia for the Rohingya response.