Engr. Md. Hakikur Rahman, PhD. is the Chairman, SchoolNet Foundation Bangladesh, and Executive Director and CEO of Sustainable Development Networking Foundation (SDNF). SDNF is the transformed entity of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) in Bangladesh where he was working as the National Project Coordinator since December 1999. SDNP is a global initiative of UNDP and it completed its activity in Bangladesh on December 31, 2006. He is also serving the South Asia Foundation Bangladesh Chapter as the Secretary. Before joining SDNP he worked as the Director, Computer Division, Bangladesh Open University. 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.

Dr. Rahman started his academic career at the Dhaka Engineering College as Lecturer in July 1981 and stayed there till December 1981. He joined Institute of Computer Management and Science, a Technical Education Board affiliated institution in 1989 as its Founder Principal and still serving as honorary basis. During this period, he worked as a Research Fellow and teachingship in BUET during February 1986 to September 1986. He is a current member of the international Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of the Advances in Electronic Government Research (AEGR) Book Series; international Review Board Member of International Journal of Doctoral Studies (IJDS) (2006-2008); a reviewer for the Editorial Reviewer Board of the International Journal of E-Government Research (IJEGR); Special Issue Editor for the Journal of Electronic Commerce and Organizations (JECO) (2006); Ad Hoc reviewer for the Editorial Review Board of the Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ) (2006-2008); reviewer of Journal of Environment and Development (JED); reviewer of EISTA 2005, 2006, CITSA 2005, 2006; Director of the Informing Science Institute (2005-2006); Editor-in-Chief (2007-2010), Advances in Knowledge Communities and Social Networks, IGI Global; Honorary Advisory Board member of Ansted University; and programme committee member of several international journals and events.

He has written several books and many articles/papers on computer education for the informal sector and distance learning. Among other publications he has contributed over 15 book chapters and edited four books on ICT for Development. He is the Founder-Chairperson of Internet Society Bangladesh Chapter; Editor, the Monthly Computer Bichitra; Founder-Principal and Member Secretary, ICMS Computer College; Head Examiner (Computer), Bangladesh Technical Education Board; Chairman, SchoolNet Foundation; and Executive Director, BAERIN (Bangladesh Advanced Education Research and Information Network) Foundation.