Dr Amirah Shazana Binti Magli is a researcher and consultant dedicated to advancing financial well-being, literacy and digital inclusion. Her work focuses on how behavioural insights and emerging technologies such as AI and FinTech can support household resilience and inclusive growth. She has joined several national studies on financial empowerment and digital transformation for low-income and youth communities, in collaboration with ministries including MOSTI, MITI and the Ministry of Digital. Beyond Malaysia, she works closely with Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Indonesia, on comparative research exploring FinTech adoption and financial resilience across ASEAN contexts. With a foundation in Family Economics and Management, Dr Amirah is deeply committed to translating research into real social impact. She contributes actively through financial literacy initiatives, community workshops and policy dialogues. Guided by a belief in empowerment through knowledge, her work seeks to build a more financially resilient and digitally inclusive society.

Dr Mohd Shahnaz Hasan is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Critical Care Physician at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre and an Assoc Professor at the Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya. He received his MBBS and postgraduate degree in Anaesthesiology from Universiti Malaya and went on to complete his Fellowship in Emergency & Critical Care Ultrasound. Majority of his time is devoted to clinical work, teaching and research. Over the past 10 years, he has maintained active collaborations with international research institutions and researchers, conducting research in areas related to critical care nutrition, nephrology, mechanical ventilation, sedation, and antimicrobials in critically ill patients. He is currently the PI of the following ongoing international clinical trials and research projects: MEGAROX (MRINZ), SPICE IV (Monash), VICTORY trial (Wurzburg), EFFORT-X(Queens), EQUIP-ICU (Oxford), REMAP-CAP (Monash) and FOIL-INFLAME (Malaysia). He is also the institutional lead in the CCAA project (Collaboration for Research, Implementation & Training in Intensive Care in Asia and Africa) which is supported by the Wellcome Trust. His past and ongoing work with the University of Queensland team in antimicrobial pharmacokinetics and optimisation of antibiotic dosing/delivery includes: BLISS, SAFE-ICU, DECISIVE, BLING III & PK/PD, PNEUDOS, and COLLABORATE. Apart from his significant contribution in the research and care of critically ill patients, he is also heavily involved in the provision of perioperative anaesthesia care for major complex spinal surgery, which include more than 2000 cases of complex congenital, neuromuscular and idiopathic scoliosis deformity surgery in young children and adolescents. Dr Shahnaz has received local and international research grants worth more than MYR 2.27 mil. He has more than 100 publications in high impact journals (WOS) with a H-index of 16 and 2200 total citations, of which 20 as first, senior, or corresponding author. About 43% of the co-authored publications are from international collaboration with researchers in other countries or region and 37% of the publications are in the top 25% most cited worldwide.

IBRAHIM, Muhammad Shazril I. is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya. He is a registered Graduate Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia and Engineers Australia, and a registered Graduate Technologist with MBOT. He is a past awardee of  the AUN-SEED Net JICA Scholarship Program where he received his M.Eng degree at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, an alumnus of the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia for his Doctoral Degree in Coastal Engineering  and a past recipient of the UQ Candidature Development Award where he had an industrial engagement with the Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Malaysia for several national-interest projects such as Kuala Pahang River Mouth Project, Centralised GIS Database and Integrated Shoreline Management Plan (ISMP). His recent research interests focus on the processes of wave and swash overtopping, which include the application of positive volume flux and deficit in the freeboard scaling through a series of physical and numerical modelling works, coastal protection works, navigation analysis via GIS application, and AI application in coastal processes.