Dr Petrina Tan is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya (UM). She holds a PhD and an LL.M (Corporate & Financial Services Law) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) as well as an LL.B (Hons)(Distinction), equivalent to a First Class Honours degree, from UM. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue a PhD at NUS and was conferred the PhD in July 2023. Her doctoral thesis examined the regulation of the alternative market listing regime by selected stock exchanges in Asia. Her prior research on retail investor protection and institutional investor stewardship has been published as journal articles in the Erasmus Law Review, Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law as well as a book chapter in the edited volume ‘Global Shareholder Stewardship’ published by Cambridge University Press. She has presented at various international and regional conferences. Her research interests include capital market law and policy, company law and corporate governance and regulatory theory more generally. She was previously a corporate lawyer, federal counsel at the Malaysian Attorney General’s Chambers, senior manager at Bursa Malaysia, adjunct research fellow at the National University of Singapore Centre for Banking & Finance Law and Postdoctoral Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business, NUS. She was also a sessional tutor at the School of Business, Monash University Malaysia, where she taught Malaysian company law.

Dr Thamil Selvi Velayutham completed her PhD in 2010 from the Department of Physics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Presently, she is an Associate Professor in the same department, specializing in material physics. Her research delves into various materials including polymers, ceramics, and their composites, exploring their functional traits like dielectric, ferroelectric, pyroelectric, and piezoelectric. Dr Velayutham is deeply engaged in investigating soft matter, employing a cohesive blend of experimental and theoretical approaches to understand their phase behaviour, structure, and statistical physics. Her contributions have been acknowledged through prestigious recognitions, including the Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science year 2020, the 22nd Journal of Oleo Science Editor's Impact Award, and honorary appointments as a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen in 2018 and 2022. Additionally, she has held the role of Editor for the Rheology Journal since 2020.

Dr. Gopinath Venkatraman is a Biotechnologist and Senior Lecturer at the Universiti Malaya Centre for Proteomics Research (UMCPR). He is also an adjunct professor of Biochemistry at Saveetha Institute of Science and Technology, India and Molecular Medicine at Sathyabama Institue of Science & Technology, India. His research focuses on biomedical (tissue engineering, antimicrobial, anticancer) and environmental applications of metal, polymeric nanomaterials, and natural compounds.