PROF. DR. RAJA JASMIN BEGUM BINTI RAJA MOHAMED

Professor Dr. Raja Jasmin is a consultant rheumatologist and the Head of Rheumatology at Universiti Malaya and University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC). Her areas of expertise include scleroderma, lupus, connective tissue diseases and autoimmune related arthritis. She obtained her advanced subspecialty training in Rheumatology at the Royal Free Hospital, University College of London (UCL), focusing on scleroderma. Her research work in various field of rheumatology was presented in international conferences and published in ISI-indexed peer reviewed journals. Dr Raja Jasmin is also actively involved as principal investigator in rheumatology clinical trials. She is a committee member of Malaysian Society of Rheumatology (MSR) and she has various appointed positions in the Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR) including scientific committee member, co-convenor and steering committee of scleroderma special interest group. She is the founder of Arthritis PPUM Care Fund in UMMC. She is also actively involved as a coordinator of University Malaya Medical Programme (UMMP) curriculum at University Malaya

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DR. MUMTAZ AINI BINTI ALIVI

Dr. Mumtaz Aini Alivi is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She earned her Bachelor of Art (Hons) with a double major in (i) Language and Malay Linguistics and (ii) Journalism from Universiti Putra Malaysia. She earned her Master of Corporate Communication and Doctor of Philosophy (Mass Communication) from the same university.Her research interests and focuses are mainly in Journalism, Broadcasting, News, Online Media, Political Communication, and Mass Communication. Apart from her academic qualifications, Dr. Mumtaz also has broad experiences in journalism, news, broadcasting, and media industry management. She was a media practitioner for twenty-two years in a government television station, Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM). For almost twenty years, she was attached to the News and Current Affairs department, where she was involved with multitasking work in her position as Broadcast Journalist, Newscaster, News Editor, and News Producer. Her service to RTM exposed her to many challenging assignments, including following the prime minister and country leaders for international news coverage abroad, doing live news coverage and news reporting from the parliament, and other important events in the country, apart from daily news coverage. Upon completion of her PhD, Dr. Mumtaz was given a different task in RTM as Assistant Director for the Policy and Research section. Later, she held the same position in the Strategic Planning section before being transferred to the Quality Control for Creative Content Unit as Evaluation Officer. These three different sections are under the Strategic Development Department, where she spent another two more years in RTM. During her service in RTM, she also worked for a few months in Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA) as a journalist under the government staff exchange program between RTM and BERNAMA. She gained valuable experiences through the BERNAMA newswire service and BERNAMA TV. Prior to joining RTM, she completed her internship in a private TV station, Sistem Televisyen Malaysia (TV3). In total, she has extensive exposure and experience in the media industry, particularly in the news department, mainly in TV, some experience in radio, and in managerial and management duties. Her passion and enthusiasm for journalism finally culminated to winning the Best Broadcast Journalist award in 2001 at the national level.Being in the media industry for more than two decades and having academic qualifications in the same field, she was also appointed by few organizations for various tasks and consultancy work. Dr. Mumtaz was appointed as one of the panel of judges for the prestigious Malaysian Journalism Award organized by Malaysia Press Institute (MPI), panel for Pitching Evaluation (Private) and Panel for Screening (Syndicated) for programs in RTM, think tank member of Ciber Generation Laboratory in Institute for Social Science Studies (IPSAS), Universiti Putra Malaysia, and expert advisor for Promotion and Publicity in the University of Malaya. She is also on the editorial board of the Malaysian Journal of Media Studies.Dr. Mumtaz decided to shift from being a media practitioner to an academic staff at the University of Malaya in 2021 and begin a new career path with a bigger mission. She believes the educational field is the right platform to share all her knowledge and experience for the nation’s development and shape future leaders.

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DR. AINEE BINTI ADAM

Ainee is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya. Her current research interests lie in the intersection between law and culture from a historical perspective. Ainee has published several articles in journals including the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property, European Intellectual Property Review and the Hong Kong Law Journal. Her most recent article, ‘Pricing and Profiting in Copyright: An Introduction to Islamic Perspective’, is published in the Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property.  She was previously attached at the School of Law, Nankai University as a Fellow under the Understanding China Fellowship, and at the Centre for Law & Business, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore as a postdoctoral fellow. She was also the Deputy Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya.

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