Dr. Haezreena Abdul Hamid is a Criminologist and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya, with extensive experience in criminal and civil litigation since her admission to the Malaysian Bar in 1997. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the School of Law of University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Her research focuses on human trafficking, incarceration, terrorism, gender, and transnational crimes. She adopts a qualitative, field-based approach and has conducted thousands of hours of interviews with female prisoners, trafficking victims, and returnees from conflict zones such as Syria and Afghanistan. In recognition of her expertise in international criminal justice and human rights, Dr. Haezreena was appointed as an Expert by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Human Trafficking and Counter-Terrorism and included in the ICC’s official List of Experts. Her contribution to Malaysia’s elevation to Tier 2 in the 2024 U.S. Trafficking in Persons Report was formally acknowledged by the Minister of Home Affairs. She received Grants from the United States Embassy of Kuala Lumpur to carry out anti-human trafficking programmes, and has also received grants from ESIWA/EU for her assessment and interviews on former combatants and detainees including the two former Guantanamo Bay detainees.