Professor Dr Haris Abd Wahab is Professor of Community Development in the Department of Social Administration and Justice, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya. He has held several senior leadership roles, including Deputy Dean (Development), Deputy Dean (Student Affairs), and multiple appointments as Head of Department. He also serves on various committees at international, national, university, faculty, and departmental levels. With over two decades of academic and professional experience, he is a recognised authority in Community Development. His scholarly contributions span teaching, research, and academic engagement in community development, social work, and social outreach. His teaching expertise includes social problems, social work practice, community development, social marketing, research methodology, and social theory. His research interests focus on community well-being, social rehabilitation for persons with disabilities in Malaysia, social development among vulnerable and marginalised groups, the preservation of Orang Asli traditional knowledge and practices, and the use of herbal and traditional medicine within Indigenous healthcare systems. His work advances theoretical and applied understandings of empowerment, social inclusion, and sustainable development across diverse socio-cultural contexts. He has published extensively, including more than 15 academic books, 40 book chapters, 20 Web of Science-indexed articles, 40 Scopus-indexed articles, and over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has supervised more than 50 Master’s and PhD candidates and serves as an experienced external examiner for postgraduate research, having examined over 40 Master’s theses and more than 30 doctoral theses internationally and locally. Prior to academia, he served as a Medical Social Worker at the Ministry of Health Malaysia (1996–2000), an experience that continues to inform his commitment to social welfare and community development.