Sonia Bashir Kabir is a Bangladeshi business executive. She is the Managing Director of Microsoft Bangladesh Limited and co-founder of IT Firm Syntec and D Money, a financial technology sector start-up. She was a national athlete and she has played for Bangladesh National Volleyball team and Bangladesh National Cricket team. Before joining the national team she played both volleyball and cricket for Abahani. She serves on boards of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), the business and computer science schools of North South University and the business school of the Independent University Bangladesh. Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Sonia in 2015 to the Governing Council of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries (LDC) for a 3 year term. 