Vian Ahmed is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. She has worked in industry and gathered more than 23 years of academic and industrial experience in the UK and overseas. She holds a BEng. in Civil Engineering, and an MSc and PhD in construction. She joined the American University of Sharjah as a Professor in Industrial Engineering in August 2018 with a long track record of research supervision, publications, and income generation.