Reza Fahmi is a policy analyst at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources regional office in Banda Aceh. He holds a bachelor’s degree in geological engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung and a master’s in hydrogeology and environmental geoscience from Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany.

He is pursuing a Fulbright Doctoral Degree Scholarship in civil engineering at Oregon State University, with an interest in groundwater quality and the environmental impacts of human activity.