Dr. Shuaibu Umar Gokaru was born and raised in Gokaru, a small town in Alkaleri Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria. He attended Iqamatissunnah Islamiyyah/Primary School and memorised the entire Qur'an by heart in 2001. Later, he went to Government Day Secondary School Kofar Wamabai. Afterwards, he studied at the then A.D.Rufa'i College for Legal and Islamic Studies, Misau, Bauchi, Nigeria, now known as A.D.Rufa'i College of Education, Legal, and General Studies, where he obtained a Diploma in Shari'a & Civil Law in 2004. Dr. Gokaru earned his B.A. Degree in Islamic Studies in 2010 from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria, followed by a Master of Arts Degree in Islamic and other Civilisations from the International Islamic University, Malaysia (IIUM) in 2014. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Islamic Civilisation at the University of Malaya in 2017. Dr. Gokaru has served as a Lecturer at Bauchi State University Gadau, Nigeria, from 2012 until January 2023, when he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Department of Islamic History and Civilisation, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. While at Bauchi State University Gadau, Dr. Gokaru taught various courses and supervised students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He held various positions, including Faculty Examination Officer of the then Faculty of Arts and Education (now Faculty of Arts) from 2017 to 2021, and Dean of the Students' Affairs Division, Office of the Vice-Chancellor, from 2021 to 2022. He also served as Chairman of the Committee and Member of numerous committees such as the Senate Committee, Senate Business Committee, Committee of Deans and Directors, Appointment and Promotion Committee, and University Disciplinary Committees, among others. He is a journal reviewer for publications such as Al-Habeer: Journal of Islamic Studies, Al-Tamaddun: Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation, and Al-Milal: South Asian Journal of Religion and Philosophy. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed academic journals (WOS and Scopus), including the Indonesian Journal of Social Sciences and Al-Tamaddun: Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation, Universiti Malaya.

Dr Fadillah Mansor is an Associate Professor at the Department of Shariah and Management, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya (UM). She was a Head at the same department from October 2018 till April 2025. She joins UM since February 2002. Priorly, she was a lecturer cum Head, Department of Muamalat at Selangor International Islamic University (UIS) from 1999 till February 2002. She obtained her PhD (in Islamic finance) from the La Trobe University, Australia. Prior to that, she holds a Bachelor in Shariah (Honours) minor in economics in 1997 and a MBA specialized in Finance in 2001 from the UM as well. Her areas of expertise include Islamic finance, Islamic banking, Islamic investments and capital market, takaful and also Islamic management. She has written numerous articles in Islamic finance and her works have been published in International journals and proceedings. In her teaching tasks, she has taught several subjects in in her field encompass Islamic financial system, Islamic capital market, economics for muamalat, Islamic banking operations at undergraduate levels. Her research interest focuses on Islamic banking and finance including Islamic mutual fund investments, Islamic financial literacy and Islamic financial planning. She is also interested in research related to halal industrial management. Nationally, she is a member of Federation of Investment Managers Malaysia (FIMM) from 2005 until 2016. She is also a panel assessor for Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), an agency that responsible for programme accreditations before the programme is listed under Malaysian Qualifications Register. As MQA assessor, she has experienced to evaluate more than 50 programmes offered by the IPTA and IPTS in Malaysia in the field of Islamic finance, muamalat, Islamic banking and finance, takaful and also Islamic management. Recently, she is appointed as an acreditation committee member of MQA for year 2024-2025. Besides, she serves as areviewer for refereed journal including International Journal of Emerging Markets;  International Journal of Economics and Management; Applied Economics incorporating Applied Financial Economics;  Journal of Business Economics and Management; and European Journal of Development Research and many more. She is actively engage with the Islamic banking and finance industry and being appointed as a member of Shariah Committee of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad since 2021. Internationally, she has been listed in the 500 Most Influential Women in Islamic Business and Finance for year 2022 and 2023 by Cambridge International Financial Advisory, UK.

Wei Ru Wong obtained her Ph.D. and B.Eng. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.  She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya.   Her research interests span widely across the photonics areas, especially in the development of planar waveguides and optical fibers using surface plasmon for sensing applications.  She was the recipient of Malaysia Toray Science Foundation (MTSF) Science and Technology Award in 2017 and she was one of the 20 honourees of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific competition in 2020. She has published more than 40 top quality internationally refereed journal papers with over 600 citations. She is also a Professional Engineer registered under the Board of Engineers Malaysia.