Dr Fadillah Mansor is an Associate Professor at the Department of Islamic Management and Finance (formerly known as Shariah and Management), Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya (UM). She was  Head of the department from October 2018 till April 2025. She joined UM in February 2002, previously, she was a lecturer cum Head, Department of Muamalat at Selangor International Islamic University (UIS) from 1999 till February 2002. She obtained her PhD (in Islamic finance) from La Trobe University, Australia. Before that, she holds a Bachelor in Shariah (Honours) with a minor in economics in 1997 and an MBA specialized in Finance in 2001 from UM as well. Her areas of expertise include Islamic finance, Islamic banking, Islamic investments and capital markets, takaful, and also Islamic management. She has written numerous articles in Islamic finance, and her works have been published in International journals and proceedings. In her teaching tasks, she has taught several subjects in her field, encompassing the  Islamic financial system, Islamic capital market, economics for muamalat, and Islamic banking operations at undergraduate levels. Her research interest focuses on Islamic banking and finance, including Islamic mutual fund investments, Islamic financial literacy, and Islamic financial planning. She is also interested in research related to halal industrial management. Nationally, she is a member of the Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia (FIMM) from 2005 until 2016. She is also a panel assessor for Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), an agency that is responsible for programme accreditations before the programme is listed under Malaysian Qualifications Register. As an MQA panel assessor, she has experience in accreditation audits for more than 50 programmes offered by the IPTA and IPTS in Malaysia in the field of Islamic finance, muamalat, Islamic banking and finance, takaful, and also Islamic management. Recently, she was appointed as an accreditation committee member of MQA for the year 2024-2025. Besides, she serves as a reviewer for refereed journals including International Journal of Emerging Markets;  International Journal of Economics and Management; Applied Economics incorporating Applied Financial Economics;  Journal of Business Economics and Management; and European Journal of Development Research and many more. She is actively engaged with the Islamic banking and finance industry and has served as the first female member of the Shariah Committee of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad since 2021. Internationally, she has been listed amongst the 500 Most Influential Women in Islamic Business and Finance for 2022 and 2023 by Cambridge International Financial Advisory, UK. She has supervised more than 30 PhD scholars since 2013, including 11 who already hold a doctorate.