Dr. Vandana Saxena is a scholar of South and Southeast Asian literature, postcolonial theory, memory studies, gender, and childhood studies, with two decades of teaching and research experience across Malaysia, Vietnam and India. She is the author of Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature and The Subversive Harry Potter, and has published widely in leading indexed journals. Recipient of multiple research grants and awards, she has supervised postgraduate work on literature, history, and cultural studies. Her work bridges literary scholarship and pedagogy, exploring the intersections of narrative, identity, and social change in transnational contexts.

Professor Kulenthran Arumugam is a Malaysian national, born on January 30th 1949.  He is married and has two children.  He graduated from University of Singapore Medical School in 1975 and completed his internship at the University Hospital Kuala Lumpur.  After serving 2 years as a Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy, University of Malaya he commenced his career in Obstetrics and Gynaecology as a Registrar in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur and at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland for two years before sitting for and passing the Membership Examination to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists  (MRCOG), London at its first attempt in January 1982.(He was elevated to a Fellow of the Royal College in 1995). He resumed his Academic and Clinical career as a Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Malaya Medical Centre in 1982.  He rapidly rose through the ranks and was appointed Associate Professor and Consultant in 1986 and to Professor and Senior Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologistin 1991. He was elevated to a Fellow of Academy of Medicine of Malaysia in 2008 In 2003 he found his niche in Clinical Epidemiology having read the Post Graduate Diploma in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene.  Completing his tenure in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in 2008 he moved to Head the Research Development Unit of the Faculty in order to guide the Faculty Staff into Research in the Clinical Sciences. Also, because of his legal expertise in having read the LLB Hons (Lond), he teaches Health Law, Ethics and professional development to the Faculty. However he continues to keep in touch with Clinical Medicine with his colleagues in the Clinical Departments. Since his retirement from the University Malaya in 2015 he continues, as Professor Kehormat, to teach in the Faculty, Health Law, Ethics, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Furthermore, as a Consultant to the Research Training Unit of the Faculty he guides and trains the medical officers and academic staff in clinical research.  

Dr. Noramin Farid, or Soultari Amin Farid, is a Singaporean choreographer, arts educator, researcher, and performance curator. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.A recipient of the ASEAN-India Youth Award (2018), Singapore Youth Award (2017), National Arts Council Scholarship (2017) and Goh Chok Tong Mendaki Youth Promise Award (2016), Amin holds a PhD in Theatre, Drama and Dance Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.He is the founding member of a few collectives in Singapore and Malaysia: DIAN Dancers, a youth Malay Dance group; Arki-Gen, a research collective focused on Southeast Asian performing arts and Ruai Kolektif, a collective to promote Bornean Arts in Peninsular Malaysia and beyond.