Dal Global Ambassadors

Mahbubur Rahman, PMP (MASc'16, MPA'22) came to Halifax, Nova Scotia from Bangladesh in 2013. During his studies at Dal, he was Vice President (Finance & Operations) of the Dalhousie Student Union for two years and held many roles as a student leader, including: Vice president (Executive) of Dalhousie International Student Association; Vice President (Academic) of Dalhousie Association of Graduate Students; Vice President (Finance) of Dalhousie Engineering Graduate Society; and President of Dalhousie Bangladesh Student Society. He was awarded Dalhousie’s Board of Governor’s Award in 2015 and Guy Henson Gold Medal in Public Administration 2022.

Mahbubur is currently a project manager with the Government of Nova Scotia. He has 20 years of professional experience. He is also the current Vice President (Program) of Project Management Institute Nova Scotia Chapter. Mahbubur is an active mentor with multiple organizations. Through these mentoring programs, he mentors multiple young professionals, recent grads, international students and newcomers.  Mahbubur’s leadership, professional excellence and community engagement was recognized through multiple awards including STEM Connector Mentor Award 2022.

Mahbubur has taken leadership roles in a number of nonprofit organizations and works with people from diverse communities. He also has been volunteering in many facets of community, including multiculturalism, diversity, education, children, student life, event programming, housing, fundraising, and urban life. For his dedicated engagement and outstanding contribution to the community, he is recognized with a Most Inspiring Immigrant of the Maritimes (2018), Provincial Volunteer Award in Nova Scotia (2017), Halifax Regional Municipality Volunteer Award (2017), and Halifax Hero Award (2017).

Mahbubur is an active volunteer with Dalhousie Alumni Association in Halifax. He has been organizing the Dalhousie Alumni Water Station in Blue Nose Marathon for the last eight years. He was one of the founders of the International Student Holiday Dinner which has been organized since 2015.

Mahbubur is a proud Dalhousie alum living in Halifax and dedicated to enhancing experiences for Dalhousie alumni and the Halifax community.

Muhammad Usman Asad (PhD'23) earned his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, Canada. He is working full-time as an instructor with Navel Engineering Fleet School. He is registered as a professional engineer with the province of Nova Scotia in the electrical engineering discipline. Based on his significant professional contributions of more than a decade, he was elevated to senior member of IEEE. He is serving as a vice-chair of the IEEE CAS/SSC Society joint chapter and vice-chair IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section and Events Team in the project management institute, Nova Scotia Chapter (PMINS). He is a recipient of various national and international research awards and published 80+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences with over 1000+ citations.