Dr. Amarul Arief Mohd Shuhaimi is a Malaysian academic and researcher specialising in Halal industry management, organisational management, talent development, and food systems governance. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Management and Islamic Finance, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya. His teaching and postgraduate supervision focus on Islamic management, organisational behaviour, marketing, and the Halal industry. He also contributes to academic governance through curriculum review, programme development, and doctoral title evaluation. Dr. Amarul holds a PhD from The University of Newcastle, Australia, undertaken in collaboration with Universiti Putra Malaysia. His doctoral research examined talent management and career development within the Halal industry. His academic work integrates sociological perspectives with management studies and policy analysis, particularly within Islamic institutions and food-based organisational systems. He has published extensively in Scopus- and Web of Science–indexed journals, including the Journal of Islamic Marketing, International Food Research Journal, and Journal of Culinary Science & Technology. His research addresses Halal governance, workforce sustainability, talent development, certification and compliance systems, organisational development, and Islamic ethical leadership. Beyond academic publishing, he contributes to public and policy discourse through national media platforms such as The Star, New Straits Times, and Utusan Malaysia. Dr. Amarul is actively involved in international research collaborations and regularly participates in academic conferences across Asia, Australia, America and Europe. His work contributes to policy development, academic innovation, and the advancement of a sustainable and globally competitive Halal ecosystem.

Nader Ghaffari Khaligh received his Ph.D. in Organic chemistry from the University of Guilan, Iran, in 2013. Since 2015 he has worked as a researcher at the Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Center, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. His publications, including papers, reviews, and mini-reviews, are focused on heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis, sustainable chemistry, green chemistry, energy, synthesis of heterocycles, and multi-task reagents. ‎ He has been elected as World's Top 2% Scientist Career-Long Citation ‎Impact and World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. He received a Chinese Chemical Letter Excellent Paper in 2017 and the Best Research Award in International Research Award on Oncology, Cancer Research in 2022, the Advanced Materials Award in 2024, and the Green Materials Prize in 2024. He is the executive editor, section editor, and associate editor of three international journals. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals.

Dr. UZAIR ISHTIAQ received master’s degree in Computer Science from NUCES Islamabad, Pakistan, and the Ph.D. degree Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. He worked as a Lecturer at COMSATS University Islamabad for more than 10 years and has been Senior Lecturer with the Department of Artificial Intelligence, FCSIT, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, since 2025. He has published several articles in academic journals indexed in ISI and Scopus.