Dr. Goh Lim Thye is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, and currently serves as the Deputy Dean of Development. He previously held the positions of Head of the Department of Economics and Programme Coordinator within the faculty. He is also an HRDC Accredited Trainer, actively delivering executive and industry training programmes in economics, strategy, and policy applications. He holds a PhD in Economics, a Master of Science in International Economics, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Financial Economics, all from Universiti Putra Malaysia. His academic and research interests span Development Economics, International Economics, Macroeconomics, and Applied Econometrics. Dr. Goh has extensive experience leading and collaborating in national and international research projects, with notable contributions in regional economic development, particularly across ASEAN economies including Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. He has served as an International Visiting Lecturer (Adjunct Faculty Member) and International Visiting Fellow, reflecting his regional and international academic engagement. His recent research focuses on income inequality, foreign direct investment, sustainable growth, and the roles of institutional quality and human capital in shaping economic performance in Southeast Asia. He serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Institutions and Economics and is a Life Member of the Malaysian Economic Association. His expertise is frequently sought by national media and policy think tanks for commentary on fiscal reforms, economic inequality, international trade, and regional economic integration.

Dr Nithiah Thangiah has been working in the research field for the past 12 years. She has been involved in many projects on population health at the Centre for Population Health (CePH), Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. Her research interest includes survey design, data management and data analysis. She is comfortable in using SPSS, Stata and JASP for data analysis. She has gained a Masters in Applied Statistics and PhD in Public Health (Adolescent Health). Her PhD in cluster analysis has enhanced her statistical skills while exploring adolescent health and CVD risk factors in Malaysia. She has published and co-authored several papers during her career as a researcher.

Farid Mohammadi is a Lecturer at the University of Malaya whose research spans nineteenth-century British literature, aesthetics, critical theory, and J. R. R. Tolkien studies. His work engages Romantic and Victorian aesthetic traditions, environmental humanities, and modern literary theory, with particular emphasis on myth, perception, landscape, and the philosophical dimensions of literary form. He received his PhD from the University of Malaya, where his dissertation examined Tolkien’s literary landscapes. His scholarship has appeared in journals including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Teaching in Higher Education, The Explicator, Literature Compass, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Victorian Review, Victoriographies, Journal of Inklings Studies, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. He is Associate Editor of The Explicator (Taylor & Francis) and also Associate Editor of the English Department's SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English. Farid has also contributed two chapters to Critical Insights: J.R.R. Tolkien (Salem Press, 2026), and his article “‘In the Black Abyss There Appeared a Single Eye’: The Gaze and Self-Fragmentation in The Lord of the Rings” is shortlisted for the 2026 Tolkien Society (UK) Award for Best Article. He is currently completing a monograph on Tolkien and philosophy.