Syed Abdur Rahim is a professional Civil engineer with over 32 years of engineering experience in the public sector, rural and urban roads, and related physical infrastructure development and maintenance. He also worked as Project Director in the Local Government Engineering Department, Bangladesh, for the Village Road Rehabilitation Project (VRRP), where he played a key role in project management, execution, contract preparation, and administration of rural and urban infrastructural works. Syed earned an MS in Environmental Science from the State University of Bangladesh and a Bachelor of Science degree from Dhaka University of Engineering Technology.