Nurul Liyana Mohd Kamil is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour, Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She served as a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in the United Kingdom. She obtained a PhD in Human Resource Management from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, Master of Business Administration from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia, and Bachelor of Business Administration in Human Resource Management from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia. Her research interests mainly in leadership, organisational climate, work engagement, voice behaviour, employees' well-being and work performance. Nurul is the Deputy Editor for Institutions and Economies Journal. She is also a Membership Officer of the Asia Pacific Academy for Psychosocial Factors at Work (www.apapfaw.org). She also engaged in academic work together with serving as an invited lecturer at Akademi Kepimpinan Wanita, Malaysia. She was awarded an Erasmus+ International Grant for Staff Mobility for Teaching and was appointed as a Visiting Scholar at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. She has received various accolades, including the Universiti Malaya's Excellent Service Award (2023). She teaches both postgraduate and undergraduate students and supervises PhD and Master of Public Administration students in the linked discipline. Her most recent publications have appeared in a variety of WoS and Scopus journals, including Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (JOOP), Leadership and Organisational Development Journal, Journal of Management & Organization, Sage Open, and many others. She also a reviewer for some well-known journals such as Current Psychology, Scandivanian Journal of Psychology, Journal of Management Organisation and Management Decision. Nurul's profile can be viewed at https://umexpert.um.edu.my/nurulliyana.html. and she can be reached by email (nurulliyana@um.edu.my).

Dr. Diana Abdul Wahab is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Applied Statistics, the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She completed her Doctorate at Leeds University Business School, Leeds, United Kingdom. Dr. Diana has been interested in applying statistical models to understand graduate labor market issues throughout her academic career, beginning at the Master’s level when she collaborated with the Tracer Study Unit in the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. Her interest in the field has evolved to a deeper understanding of graduate employment issues including gender pay gap, first destination choices, and migration while developing her interest in the field of data science where she applies data science techniques in other areas of studies such as education and economy. She has published her paper in the Institutions and Economies and continues to write for other international academic journals. She has won a scholarship award to go to Kazakhstan to conduct a comparative analysis on the graduate employment issues between the two countries. She teaches Statistical Computing and Business Analytics and planning to expand her research interest in the field of data science. 

Associate Professor Dr. Nur Awanis Hashim is an Associate Professor specialising in membrane technology and fabrication at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Malaya (UM). She joined UM as a lecturer in November 2004 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011. Since then, she has played a key role in developing membrane fabrication research at UM, particularly through the application of the phase inversion process. Before entering academia, Awanis worked as a Plant Engineer at Hitachi Semiconductor (Penang) after completing her Bachelor’s degree under the Monbusho Scholarship (now the MEXT Scholarship, Japan). Her academic training spans Japan and the United Kingdom, with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Osaka University, a Master’s degree in Environmental Biotechnology from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), and a PhD from Imperial College London. She completed her secondary education at Sekolah Tun Fatimah, Johor Bahru. In 2014, she represented Malaysia in the ASEAN–US Science Prize for Women competition in recognition of her work on membrane-based approaches to improving access to safe drinking water in the ASEAN region. Her research career has also been strengthened through international collaborations supported by the Hitachi Research Fellowship (2016), the Yamaguchi University Visiting Scholar Award and MEXT Global Networking Award (2019), and the JSPS Bridge Fellowship Award (2023), hosted by Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan. Awanis received a special grant under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) in 2015 from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia for research on disaster mitigation and flood prevention using membrane technology. She has been involved in 16 research projects and has served as Principal Investigator for 12 internal and external grants, with total funding exceeding RM1.5 million. She is a Chartered Engineer with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK) and a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia. She currently serves as an Executive Committee (Exco) member of JSPS–JAAM and is a member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia. Awanis has held various academic and administrative leadership positions at UM since 2004, including Head of the Centre for Separation Science and Technology (January 2020 – December 2021), undergraduate programme coordinator, curriculum review committee member, laboratory coordinator, and departmental quality manager. From 2023 to 2025, she was seconded to the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia as Deputy Undersecretary in the Policy and Research Division, where she headed the Research and Public–Private Research Network (PPRN) Section, comprising the Research Unit, PPRN Unit, and the Administration Unit. In this capacity, she was responsible for developing strategies and overseeing the implementation and monitoring of policy research, PPRN, and social innovation funding to ensure effective, value-added outcomes. She also coordinated research initiatives across departments within MOHE and represented the Ministry in matters related to research with other ministries. Her research interests include membrane fabrication and modification, membrane-based separation technologies, separation processes, water and wastewater treatment, and carbon dioxide capture using membrane gas absorption. She has published more than fifty articles in ISI-indexed journals and regularly presents her work at national and international conferences.