Aminur Rahman is currently working as a Senior Investment Policy Officer in the Investment Climate Department of the World Bank Group. Previously he worked with the Development Research Group and South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management of the World Bank. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London and a Master in Development Economics from Oxford University.

His research interests include gender, aid effectiveness, informality, and corruption. He has published in a number of leading economics and business studies journals and in collective volumes from various academic press, such as the MIT Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and United Nations University Press.