Fahmi Amhar has enjoyed all his studies at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, and in 1997 earned his doctorate in photogrammetry and remote sensing. Then he joined the Indonesian National Survey and Mapping Coordinating Agency (BAKOSURTANAL), which in 2010 became the Geospatial Information Agency (BIG). In 2022 he joined the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). In addition to working as a Research Professor, Fahmi also teaches at IPB-University and a number of other campuses. Fahmi has more than 25 years of experience in national topographic mapping, disaster mapping, spatial mapping, and national spatial data infrastructure development.