[1] Ahmed was born to a Bengali Muslim family from Brahmanbaria in the erstwhile Tippera District of eastern Bengal.
[1] His research for dissertation was on metaphysics and logic under the advisers John Cook Wilson and Bradley Stamp.
Ahmed began his career as a lecturer at Dhaka University and later became the Head of the Department of Philosophy.
These include leading delegations to Turkey, Iraq, Burma (Myanmar), Uruguay, India, Canada, France, the UK, the US to name some of them.
He acted in the executive boards of international organizations and philanthropic foundations namely, the UNESCO General Conference in New Delhi in 1957 where he was elected a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, the Nuffield Foundation, UK, and others.