As a culturally competent architect and social planner, Dr. Imon Chowdhooree has intensive academic and research experiences in disaster management and urban development planning in Palau, Vietnam, Portugal, Australia, and Bangladesh. He has been teaching at Brac University since 2006. After finishing his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology he was appointed as a faculty member at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka for a semester. After that, he joined BRAC University as a lecturer in its Department of Architecture. From 2008 to 2010 he was on study leave for conducting his master's degree at the University of Hawaii in the USA under Asian Development Bank-Japan Government Scholarship Program. He finished his second master's degree from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia in 2018. He also regularly takes classes in the Postgraduate Programs in Disaster Management.