Edmund Terence Gomez Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, Universiti Malaya. He specializes in state-market relations and the linkages between politics, public policies, and enterprise development -- a subject on which he has published extensively, writing not only for academia but also more widely.  He has held appointments as Visiting Professor at: the School of International Relations & Pacific Studies at the University of California-San Diego, USA (2014-2015); the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA (2013-2014); and at Kobe University, Japan (May-August 2002). Other academic appointments include Visiting Fellowships at: the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Denmark (October-November 2004); the Australian National University, Canberra (February 2002); and at the Asian Studies Department, Murdoch University, Australia (January-December 1993). He was also Senior Research Fellow at the Department of East Asian Studies, Leeds University, United Kingdom from 1996-1999. From 2005-2008, Terence served as Project Manager and Research Coordinator of the programme area ‘Identities, Conflict and Cohesion’ at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva, Switzerland. He has undertaken various research projects and convened numerous international conferences–among others, on political-business linkages in East Asia; the growth of national and transnational ethnic Chinese enterprise; the history of Chinese communities and their enterprises in Australia, Britain and Southeast Asia; ethnic conflict and social cohesion in Asia; equity distribution and government intervention in Malaysia –all of which have received funding from various local and global agencies, including the Sasakawa, Sumitomo and Toyota Foundations of Japan, the Department of Education and Training in Australia, the Christensen Fund (USA), the British Academy, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the United Kingdom. He serves on the editorial board and advisory committee of the following international journals: East Asia: An Internationaal Quarterly, Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia and Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. He is also editor of the 'Chinese Worlds' Series and the 'Malaysian Studies' Series for Routledge, London & New York.

Dr Zulaikha currently serves as Senior Lecturer and Clinical Medical Physicist at the Clinical Oncology Department, UMMC. She previously worked as Medical Physicist in Hospital University of Science Malaysia (HUSM) for 3-years before joining UMMC in 2010. She received her PhD in Clinical Oncology Physics in 2021 from the Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. As clinical physicist and a lecturer in a teaching hospital, she is responsible on producing high quality radiotherapy treatment planning for oncology patients; perform dose measurement and quality assurance check on radiotherapy modalities while being involved with various clinical improvement technique, research and academic teaching related to Medical Physics and Oncology services. Her main expertise and research covers all applications related to brachytherapy, stereotactic body radiotherapy, in vivo dosimetry, hybrid treatment planning and radiobiology of hypo-fractionated treatment, while being the author and co-author for number of publications related to her field of expertise.

Dr. Goh is a fellowship-trained Otorhinolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgeon who completed his specialty training at the University of Malaya. He further pursued subspecialty training in sleep surgery and medicine, with exposure to trans oral robotic surgery (TORS) and hypoglossal nerve stimulation therapy, at the SingHealth Duke-NUS Sleep Center in Singapore. He is also recognized as an International Sleep Specialist by the World Sleep Society.Currently, his clinical practice is at the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) and UM Specialist Center (UMSC) , where his interest is on General Otorhinolaryngology disorder, Sleep disorders in Otorhinolaryngology and Functional airway surgery.