Dr. Iftekharuddin Choudhury is an architect by profession. He graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1968 and joined as a Lecturer in the Department of Architecture. He left teaching and practiced Architecture in Bangladesh for a few years. Dr. Choudhury did his Ph.D. in Architecture from Texas A&M University in 1994. He taught in the Department of Construction Science at the same university for twenty-five years. Currently, he is an emeritus faculty.