Dr Siti Hajar is a Professor at the Department of Social Administration and Justice, University of Malaya. Her core area of expertise is Social Policy. Over the 20 years, she has been involved in developing and promoting the teaching, learning and research opportunities in the field of social policy and social work. She teaches social policy, social welfare system, social planning, social evaluation and monitoring, research methodology and social theories. Her research interests focus on social care programs for the at-risk children in Malaysia, children well-being and social development for vulnerable social groups.  

Hema Subramaniam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Software Engineering at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya. She holds a PhD in Software Engineering from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), awarded in 2016, after completing her Master of Computer Science (Software Engineering) in 2010 and her BSc in Information Technology in 2006, both from Universiti Selangor. Her core research interests revolve around software quality metrics, architecture, and real-time systems. She focuses on developing methodologies to improve system maintainability, performance, and scalability. Dr. Hema has actively led and contributed to various research initiatives to assess and optimise software structures through quantitative models. Her work frequently integrates advanced architectural design principles and dynamic analysis to build robust, high-dependability systems, particularly in real-time application domains. Her dedication to translating theoretical frameworks into practical solutions has made a meaningful impact on advancing intelligent and adaptive software engineering practices.

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.