Farid Mohammadi is a Lecturer at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, specialising in 19th-century British literature, travel narratives, and environmental aesthetics. His research focuses primarily on British aesthetic traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly the Sublime, the Picturesque, Victorian material culture, and the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. He completed his PhD at the University of Malaya with a dissertation on Tolkien’s literary landscapes. Since 2023, Farid has served as Deputy Editor for the English Department’s journal, SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English.Farid has published several papers on Tolkien, with manuscripts appearing in leading WoS-indexed journals including Oxford University Press’s British Journal of Aesthetics, Wiley’s Literature Compass, Routledge’s Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, The Explicator, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Johns Hopkins University Press’s Victorian Review, Routledge’s Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Edinburgh University Press’s Victoriographies, and the Oxford Literary Circle’s Journal of Inklings Studies. He is currently working on two monographs: one on Tolkien’s literary landscapes and another on Tolkien’s engagement with philosophy.

TANG Tuck Mun, Lincoln, CL is a Language Lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL), Universiti Malaya (UM). He was the UM Convenor for Professional Credentialing Programme in Professional Translation of the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. He is also a UM Internal Auditor and reports to Quality Management and Enhancement Centre, UM. He was the Information and Communications Coordinator, FLL, UM and represented FLL at Corporate Communications Office, UM. As an applied linguist, Lincoln has a special interest in English language education, language acquisition, and is currently working on crisis translation. He is also a trained translator and completed his training under the Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books and Malaysian Translators Association. He has served as a reviewer for Journal of Modern Languages. He is a full Member (MCIL) and Chartered Linguist (CL) of Chartered Institute of Linguists. He is also a Founding Member of Chartered College of Teaching since its inception in 2017. He is also active in capacity-building initiatives of the Scout Movement in Malaysia (particularly through The King's Scout Brotherhood of Malaysia), in the Asia-Pacific Region, and at the world level through World Scouting. He is currently the Focal Point in Malaysia for Youth and United Nations Global Alliance of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Lincoln is a Baden-Powell Fellow of the World Scout Foundation and a Paul Harris Fellow of The Rotary Foundation. TANG Tuck Mun, Lincoln, CL ialah Pensyarah Bahasa di Fakulti Bahasa dan Linguistik (FBL), Universiti Malaya (UM). Beliau sebelum ini berkhidmat sebagai Penyelaras UM bagi Program Pentauliahan Profesional dalam Penterjemahan Profesional Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi Malaysia. Beliau juga bertugas sebagai Juruaudit Dalaman UM yang melaporkan kepada Pusat Pengurusan Kualiti dan Penambahbaikan, UM. Sebelum ini, beliau pernah dilantik sebagai Penyelaras Informasi dan Komunikasi di FBL, UM, dan mewakili FBL di Pejabat Komunikasi Korporat, UM. Sebagai seorang ahli linguistik gunaan, Lincoln mempunyai minat khusus dalam pendidikan bahasa Inggeris, pemerolehan bahasa, dan kini sedang menjalankan kajian mengenai penterjemahan krisis. Beliau juga merupakan seorang penterjemah terlatih Institut Terjemahan & Buku Malaysia dan Persatuan Penterjemah Malaysia. Beliau pernah berkhidmat sebagai penilai untuk Journal of Modern Languages. Lincoln merupakan Ahli Penuh (MCIL) dan Ahli Linguistik Bertauliah (Chartered Linguist) Chartered Institute of Linguists. Beliau juga merupakan Ahli Pengasas Chartered College of Teaching sejak penubuhannya pada tahun 2017. Bukan itu sahaja, beliau juga aktif dalam inisiatif pembangunan kapasiti Pergerakan Pengakap di Malaysia (khususnya melalui Persaudaraan Pengakap Raja Malaysia), di peringkat Asia-Pasifik, serta di peringkat dunia melalui Pengakap Sedunia (World Scouting). Beliau ialah Focal Point di Malaysia bagi Youth and United Nations Global Alliance Pertubuhan Makanan dan Pertanian Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu. Lincoln merupakan seorang Baden-Powell Fellow World Scout Foundation dan juga Paul Harris Fellow The Rotary Foundation.  

Rajah Rasiah is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He obtained his doctorate in Economics from Cambridge University in 1992, and was a Rajawali fellow at Harvard University in 2014. He was the first holder of the Khazanah Nasional Chair of Regulatory Studies and served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya in 2009-2010 and 2013-2014. He was a member of the GLOBELICS scientific board over the period 2012-2017, Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT from 2004 till 2024, Senior Research Associate at the Technology Management and Development Centre at Oxford University, Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Rising Powers, Cambridge University, an advisory member of the Industrial Development Research Centre, Zhejiang University over the period 2010-2015, Member of the Advisory Board of University of Cambodia over the period 2005-2015, Visiting Professor at Lahore School of Economics (2019), Visiting Professor at UNIMAS from 2018 till 2020. He has delivered public lectures, policy talks and keynote speeches at several universities, including Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, University of California (Berkeley), Emory, American University, George Mason University, University College London, Meijo University, Zhejiang University, National University of Singapore, Monash, Melbourne, Australian National University, University of Capetown, Witswaterand, Murdoch, Latrobe, Macquarie, Sydney, Wollongong, University of Philippines (Diliman), Jawaharlal Nehru, Culcutta, Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore), Lahore School of Economics, Mohamad Ali Jinnah, University of Malaya, University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Chulalongkorn University, Chiengmai University, Beijing University, UNIKAMP (Sao Paolo), University of Buenos Aires, Manchester, National Taiwan University, Soeul National University, Bocconi University, University of Rome, UNU-MERIT (Maastricht), Adama, Copenhagen Business School, Aolborg, Lund, University of Indonesia, University Padjajaran, Agricultural University of Bogor, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sunway University, University Institute of MARA (Shah Alam), and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. His policy-oriented work includes research in several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Among the major contributions he has made for the benefit of society include the conceptualization of technology, and its link to development, and methodologies designed to capture clustering, technological capabilities and industrial policies. In recognition of his competence, the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, World Bank, International Labour Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations Development Programme, the Asian Development Bank and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia have commissioned the writing of several reports for guiding industrial policy in the developing economies. He was also one of the principal authors of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s (UNIDO) 2009 flagship report, and one of the editors of the 2015 UNESCO Science Report. His research and policy work has produced over 280 publications in international journals and prestigious presses. While the prime focus of his research is on technology and international development, he has also worked extensively on foreign investment, human capital, public health and environment. He was awarded the Robert McNamara Award by the World Bank in 1993. He is the 2015 recipient of the Celso Furtado prize from the World Academy of Sciences for advancing the frontiers of social science (economics) thought. In light of his outstanding impactful contributions to scholarship, Malaysia's Ministry of Higher Education conferred him the award of Distinguished Professor in the field of Economics in 2017. He was conferred the Merdeka (Independence) Award for academic excellence in 2018.