Having joined the Financial Accounting Standards Board as a technical assistant in 2003, Salo will serve a five-year term on the board starting in July.
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Munro described the chaotic scene they found when they landed in Dhaka in 2005, a city of some 25 million people and the capital of Bangladesh, which grows by an estimated 800,000 people per year. This country is one-sixth the size of Saskatchewan, but has a population of over 175 million people currently. “It really is unbelievable. We thought we had landed in the midst of a revolution,” said Munro of the noisy, crowded city. The education system they found is so bad that UNESCO declared this country has an education crisis where one in every three children will grow up not knowing how to read or write. Munro pointed out the state-run schools have the shortest school days in the world, at about two hours a day, with classes of 50 to 60 children who are taught by rote learning.