Md. Hakikur Rahman is an academic over 30 years has served leading education institutes in Bangladesh and abroad, and established various ICT4D projects funded by ADB, EU, UNDP and World Bank. He is currently serving as a Professor at the Asian University of Bangladesh and Director at the Ansted University Sustainability Research Institute. Before that he served the BRAC University as an Associate Professor (Chair, CSE Dept.) and a Post Doctoral Researcher (Research Associate) at the University of Minho, Portugal under the Centro Algoritmi. He has written and edited over 25 books, more than 50 book chapters and contributed over 200 articles on computer education, ICTs, knowledge management, open innovation, data mining and e-government research in newspapers, journals and conference proceedings. Graduating from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1981, he has done his Master's of Engineering from the American University of Beirut in 1986 and completed his PhD in Computer Engineering from the Ansted University, BVI, UK in 2001; and PhD in ICT from the Empresarial University of Costa Rica in 2010.