Hamid is currently working as an Economic Affairs Officer for the Space Applications Section at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok, Thailand, a position he has held since March 2022. Here, he is responsible for developing and implementing innovative applications of space technologies to promote sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. As a part of this, he is also contributing to the development of the Regional Space Applications Program, which focuses on the use of space-based technologies to support sustainable development goals. He is also the Steering Committee Member at GEO Blue Planet. Hamid's research interests include AI for good, digital technologies, participatory modelling, citizen science, data cubes, analysis-ready data, big Earth data, and applications of distributed ledger and smart contracts to achieve SDGs. He has published several papers, reports and strategic foresight on these topics.