Professor (I) Sr Mohd Khairudin bin Abd Halim                         FRICS, FISM, FMIPFM, MBVAM, ICVS Professor (Industry) Real Estate Department Faculty of Built Environment         Prof. (I) Sr Mohd Khairudin Bin Abd Halim is currently an Industry Professor at the Real Estate Department, Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya, he is a former Director General of Valuation and Property Services Department., Ministry of Finance Malaysia and the Past President of Board of Valuers, Appraisals, Estate Agents, and Property Managers Malaysia.   He is also the Past Deputy President of the Royal Institution of Surveyor Malaysia (2019-2020) and the Past Deputy President of Business Valuers Association Malaysia.   Graduated from UTM in 1983 with B. Surv(Hons), Estate Management and possess his Post Graduate Certificate in Valuation and Property Management from Sheffield Hallam University, UK in 1993.In the year 2019 he obtained Fellowship of Royal Institution Surveyor, Malaysia, and fellowship of the Chartered Royal Institution of Surveying United Kingdom in the subsequent year.   Served the Valuation and Property Services Department for almost 4 decades since 1983. He has been serving in several states namely Pahang, Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur, Sabah, Selangor, and Johor and as the Director and District Valuer. He has also served as the Director of INSPEN before been appointed as the Deputy Director General (Strategic Policy) in Head Quarter. His passion and endeavor on specialized valuation make him as the first Division Director for almost 10 years with the Plant, Machinery and Equipment Valuation Division in the Valuation and Property Services Department, Head Quarter.       His previous experience include valuation of plant, machinery, and equipment for various purposes such as market value, liquidation, purchase, privatization, rental, insurance and capital value to the Federal Government, States, Local Authorities and Statutory Bodies.   He has a wide experience in advising the Malaysia Airport Holding (MAH) on Insurance Valuation for all international and domestic airports and STOL Ports in Malaysia.   He has been involved in various Plant and Machinery valuations such as Quarry Plants, Palm Oil Mill Industry, Nanotechnology and electro chemistry equipment, Technical Training Institute, Airports, Vehicles, Satellite/Aircraft testing equipment, Ferry, Power Generation Plant, Water Treatment Plants, Methanol Plants, and many others.   He has been very actives in giving lectures and talks on PME subjects in various Seminars, conferences, and Short Courses locally and abroad. Involve in the collaboration program with Taqeem, Kingdom Saudi Arabia in provided training and guiding for Saudi accredited program. He has participated in the MTCP (Malaysia Technical Corporation Programme) in providing training to international participants in INSPEN since early 2000.   Apart from his current position he is also the Board Members of LPPSA (Lembaga Pembiayaan Perumahan Sektor Awam), Ministry of Finance since the year 2020.

Dr. Asyraf did his Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics and Finance in the University ofNottingham Malaysia Campus, then he undertook his MSc in Islamic Finance in INCEIF. He later joined UM as a GRA for 2 years, before becoming a SLAB fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics in 2018 for his PhD studies. He completed his PhD in 2022 and are currently active in research and publications in the field of Islamic equity markets, more specifically, the various behaviour of Shariah compliant firms. Dr. Asyraf primarily teach quantitative subjects in the faculty, such as Econometrics and Financial Modelling & Mathematics. Although not very athletic, Dr. Asyraf enjoys badminton, (watching) football and video games.

Ir. Dr. Adeline Chua Seak May is a Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Malaya. A PhD graduate from The University of Tokyo, Japan, she specialises in biological nutrients removal and resource recovery. She has published more than 40 papers in ISI-indexed journals and has supervised over 15 PhD and master students. Adeline is also a Chartered Engineer of IChemE, UK and a Professional Engineer of BEM, Malaysia. She works closely with the local wastewater treatment operators to improve the energy efficiency and performance of the wastewater treatment plants. The academia-industry research collaboration has earned her the award of international funding Newton Fund Impact Scheme. Her international research partners include NIES, Yokohama National University (Japan), SCELSE (Singapore), Kasetsart University (Thailand), and Newcastle University (UK). Adeline was also a visiting research fellow at The University of Tokyo (2012) and Newcastle University (2016-2019). Her current research interests are related to the development of sustainable wastewater treatment process in the tropical climates, microbial ecology in tropical wastewater treatment plants, and resource recovery (biopolymer, biochemicals, biofuel and nutrients) from agro-industrial waste(water) streams.