Vilashini Somiah is an anthropologist who is a senior lecturer at the Gender Studies Programme at Universiti Malaya. She received her PhD from the National University of Singapore, an MA from Ohio University, an MRes from Universiti Malaya and a BA from the Universiti Malaya. She maintains a keen interest for underrepresented narratives of women, migrants and Borneans living in the interiors. She is the co-editor of “Sabah From the Ground: The 2020 Elections and the Politics of Survival (SIRD/ISEAS, 2021), and her first book, “Irregular Migrants and the Sea at the Borders of Sabah, Malaysia: Pelagic Alliance'' with Palgrave Macmillan (TBC 2022). Outside of academia, she writes ethnographic articles on the local socio-political landscape.

Dr Fadillah Mansor is an Associate Professor at the Department of Shariah and Management, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya (UM). She was a Head at the same department from October 2018 till April 2025. She joins UM since February 2002. Priorly, 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 the La Trobe University, Australia. Prior to that, she holds a Bachelor in Shariah (Honours) minor in economics in 1997 and a MBA specialized in Finance in 2001 from the UM as well. Her areas of expertise include Islamic finance, Islamic banking, Islamic investments and capital market, 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 in her field encompass Islamic financial system, Islamic capital market, economics for muamalat, 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 Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia (FIMM) from 2005 until 2016. She is also a panel assessor for Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), an agency that responsible for programme accreditations before the programme is listed under Malaysian Qualifications Register. As MQA assessor, she has experienced to evaluate 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 is appointed as an acreditation committee member of MQA for year 2024-2025. Besides, she serves as areviewer for refereed journal 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 engage with the Islamic banking and finance industry and being appointed as a member of Shariah Committee of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad since 2021. Internationally, she has been listed in the 500 Most Influential Women in Islamic Business and Finance for year 2022 and 2023 by Cambridge International Financial Advisory, UK.

Mohamadariff Othman received his Bachelor in Electronic Engineering from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2006, M.Sc. in RF and Microwave from University of Science Malaysia (USM), Malaysia in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Antenna and Propagation also from USM in 2015. He joined Universiti Malaya, Malaysia as senior lecturer in 2016 after serving in the UCSI University, Malaysia for almost 1 and half year. His research interests include 5G antenna, dielectric material characterization, dielectric resonator antenna, and filtenna. Currently, he extensively investigate UHF antenna for partial discharge detection in high power application.