Dr. Nikmatul Adha is currently the Director of the Corporate Performance Centre at Universiti Malaya. She holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). In 2011, she was awarded a doctoral degree from USM, specializing in social and physical planning. Dr. Nikmatul Adha began her career as a Research Officer at USM, later serving as a Research Executive at a private consultancy firm before transitioning into academia. Since 2004, she has been a faculty member at Universiti Malaya, where she teaches Urban Management, Community Development Planning, and various planning studio courses. She is also a Graduate Member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP). Her research interests include participatory urban planning, tourism planning, and community development planning. Dr. Nikmatul Adha has authored several books and academic articles related to her areas of expertise. She is frequently invited as a speaker and forum panellist at national conferences and has served as a visiting lecturer at Nanjing University Jinling College.

Dr. Husaina Banu Kenayathulla is an Associate Professor at Department of Educational Management, Planning and Policy. She obtained her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Currently, she serves as the Deputy Dean (Postgraduate Studies). Her research interests include Education policy, Economics and Finance in education, Comparative and International education and Higher Education. She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed publications. Leadership experience includes Deputy Dean (Research and Enterprise), Head of Department, Chief Liaison Officer, Risk Manager, and Course Coordinator. Editorial experience includes positions such as Editor-in Chief, Associate Editor, Editorial Advisory Board Member, and Peer reviewer of education journals. Has co-edited a Special issue in the International Journal of Education Development. Latest book chapter is published by Springer Nature Singapore. Notable journal publications include papers in International Journal of Education Development, Asia Pacific Education Review, Heliyon and COMPARE: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. She has been invited as a speaker for panel sessions at various international conferences. She had been invited as a Panel Expert by UNESCO in projects such as Shadow Education, Micro certification, Artificial Intelligence,  Developing Subject Specific Quality Standards in the Asia Pacific region. She has been the Principal Investigator for grants at the national and international levels on School Finance, Digital Financial literacy, Financial Literacy, Employability, Internationalization, and Comparative & Higher Education projects. She is also a recipient of the SATU project in collaboration with National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan in Comparative and Sustainable Education Project. She has collaborated with Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia on entrepreneurship and sustainability projects. She is also involved as a Consultant for the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) project on Quality Education, Malaysian Ministry of Human Resource on Employability for TVET Graduates & Malaysian Ministry of Education for Policy on Lifelong Learning, Compulsory Education, and District Education Ranking Measures.

Muhammad Safwan Harun is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Fiqh Usul & Applied Sciences, Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Fiqh and Usul with distinction in 2016 and earned his PhD from Universiti Malaya in 2019, specialising in Islamic jurisprudence and contemporary applications of Shariah. At the international level, he has served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya (2024) and a Research Fellow at Marmara University, Türkiye (2025). He sits on the editorial boards of FIKRI: Jurnal Kajian Agama, Sosial dan Budaya, Jurnal Khazanah Pendidikan and Jurnal Fiqh (Scopus). His global engagements include coordinating student mobility programmes to Türkiye and Indonesia, research collaboration with IAIN Madura, delivering a plenary lecture at the International Seminar on Maqasid Shariah in Bandung (2022), serving on the organising committee of ICONWAT Türkiye (2025) and completing a specialised fatwa training programme at Dar al-Ifta’, Egypt (2022). At the national level, he serves as a Reference Expert Panel for the Maqasid al Shari‘ah Division at JAKIM, an Executive Committee Member of the Maqasid Institute Malaysia and a Panel Expert in Shariah for the Malaysian Examinations Council. He is regularly consulted by ILIM, JAKIM, INTAN, the Ministry of Digital and IKIM, and has been featured on the national television programme “Selamat Pagi Malaysia”. His expertise is further applied through his roles as Expert Panel for OUM’s curriculum review, the Malaysian Maqasid Shariah Governance Index (JAKIM), the Gagasan Kalimah Tayyibah Document (JAKIM) and as a Panel Expert for the review of fatwa papers at the Kelantan State Mufti Department. Within Universiti Malaya, he has contributed through multiple academic and administrative roles, including Coordinator of the Student Lajnah, Outbound Advisor, Managing Editor of al Basirah Journal and Secretary for major academic programmes such as the 3rd Prof Emeritus MZAM Premier Lecture and SHIS 2024. He also serves on key university committees, including Curriculum Review, Timetabling, ICON IMAD, Corporate Video, MITA 2024, APIUM Canteen, the Surau Committee, the 2024 Research Load Taskforce and JK Ikhtisas. As of November 2025, he has been involved in 27 research grants, produced nearly 130 scholarly and professional publications and completed over 90 expert evaluations as a book reviewer and postgraduate examiner. These achievements highlight his sustained contribution to Shariah scholarship at the international, national and institutional levels.