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Sr Dr. Saipol Bari Abd Karim is a Professional Quantity Surveyor (PQS), registered with the Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia (BQSM). A senior lecturer in construction economics and project management at the Department of Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Built Environment, Sr Dr. Saipol developed his research interests in the area of project, risk and value management as well as construction economics. Currently he is the Head, Department of Quantity Surveying and was formerly the Coordinator for the Master of Project Management programme, a leading, multi-discipline and cross-sectoral programme in project management in Malaysia. He is also an alumni of UM, the pioneer batch of Bachelor of Quantity Surveying graduates. He pursued his post-graduate studies at the University of Manchester where he obtained his MSc in Management of Project from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering (MACE) and a PhD from Manchester Business School (MBS) with a research on project risk maangement. 

Prior to joining UM in 2005, his professional experiences started in 1999 with Gamuda Berhad as QS and was directly involved in the Western Kuala Lumpur Traffic Dispersal Scheme project or known as SPRINT highway. He later joined MCM Associates in 2001 as QS, responsible for several private and public projects including the prestigious Four Seasons Resort Langkawi and the new UiTM campus in Puncak Alam, Selangor. In 2003, he moved to Dialog Group Berhad and was involved in various upstream and downstream projects, from tendering to implementation related to the catalyst handling and plant services both locally and internationally.  He was responsible to manage contracts to many clients such as Petronas, Shell, ExxonMobil, BP, Malaysian Oxygen, MLNG, Halliburton, Pertamina (Indonesia), and Conoco Phillips.  While in the UK, in 2010, he was called by BDAS, a building dispute and adjudication services consultancy firm to assist its client on the loss and expense claims, extension of time evaluation, as well as progress claims works for hospital projects located in the Northwest of UK.

He is actively involved with the Institute of Value Management Malaysia (IVMM) since 2001 promoting and educating the public at large on VM and was elected as Fellow of IVMM in 2017. He has served as Council Member for six terms and currently the Education Development Director of the institute. He was the Chairman of the BPCI2017 which was jointly organised IVMM & UM. He has controbuted to the development of National VM Manual and the VM Competencies Standard.

Besides that, he is also an active member with the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM), serving the Building Cost Information Center (BCIC), Education and Accreditation Board (AEB), MQA accreditation panel for Diploma in QS programme and the Promotion of QS in Asian countries sub-committee.

Additionally, Sr Dr. Saipol is also actively serving the Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia (BQSM) for its 'Programme for QS Registration Scheme' or PQRS since 2015, one of the mentor for QS registration and a member of the Promotion Sub-Committee 2017-2019; member of accreditation panel under QS Accreditation Council and also evaluation panel for BQSM's Best Dissertation Award.

He has been appointed by the Council of Deans in Built Environment to be part of the Committe of Heads in Construction Management area for 2019-2021 term. He was also been appointed as Executive Council member of the Association of Construction Project Managers (ACPM). Recently he was appointed as committee member by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) to revise the Construction Industry Standard for national housing.

Sr Dr. Saipol has been frequently invited to deliver talks, seminars and trainings organized by CIDB, Public Works Department (PWD), Contractor and Entrepreneur Development Division (BPKU) of the Ministry of Works, Malaysia, Politeknik Malaysia, Authority for Building Control and Construction Industry (ABCI) of Brunei Darussalam and several NGOs and private organisations.