Abdul Rahman Kamaruddin -Member

Is an International Expert of Information Systems and Services. He has served in key positions both in India and abroad. He has been the Senior Technical Advisor in UNESCO, UNIDO and IDB & has served in several countries. He is presently the Secretary General of Tipu Sultan Advanced Study and Research Centre at Srirangapatnam as well as advisor to Al-Ameen Group of Institutions in addition to several social services activities, educational programmes and motivation of the youth.

Mr. Abdul Rahman has served both in the public and private sectors in India from 1960 to 1975, having served as Information Officer in the University College of Engineering – Bangalore, the Hindustan Machine Tools – Bangalore, Andrew Yule & Co,. – Calcutta and in Central Machine Tools Institute – Bangalore.

He has served abroad in several key positions from 1975 to 1998. He has served as UNIDO Advisor in Iraq on industrial information and as UNIDO Chief Industrial Information Advisor to the Arab Organisation for Industrial Development, Baghdad. He joined UNESCO as Chief Technical Advisor to the Arab League and helped to establish an information system for the league of Arab States. The Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Jeddah invited him from UNESCO and he joined IDB in 1989 as advisor on a project to establish an OIC Information Systems Network to serve the 57 member countries of the OIC. He has worked closely with late Dr.S.R.Ranganathan, father of library & information science and has contributed more than 70 papers and reports in his field of specialization.

Mr. Abdul Rahman has also been associated with organizing a number of international seminars and meetings related to information systems, education, economics, trade and technology transfer.

Currently Mr. Kamaruddin is General Secretary of Sharieff Foundation which runs ‘Dar-ul-Umoor’ in Srirangapatna, which trains Ulema for community leaderships.