PROF. DR. EDMUND TERENCE A/L ERIC BONIFACE GOMEZ

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.

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SR DR. NUR FARHANA BINTI AZMI

Nur Farhana Azmi is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Building Surveying, Universiti Malaya. She holds a PhD degree in Building Control and Performance, and Bachelor degree in Building Surveying. Her doctoral thesis focused on sustaining the identity of small towns in Malaysia from the perspective of building regulations and requirements. Her current research interests are in Building Control, Building Regulations, and Urban Conservation. She has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of built environment and has published a number of publications in journals, proceedings, and book chapters. Professionally, Farhana is a full member of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (MRISM).

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ASSOCIATE PROF. DR. YANTI IDAYA ASPURA BINTI MOHD KHALID

Dr. Yanti Idaya Aspura binti Mohd Khalid is an Associate Professor at the Department of Library & Information Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, where she also serves as Deputy Dean (Undergraduate). She began her teaching career in 2001 as a Lecturer at Management and Science University and later served as Senior Librarian at Dar al-Hikmah Library, International Islamic University Malaysia (2003–2015) before joining Universiti Malaya in 2016. She holds a Bachelor in Human Sciences (Political Science) (2000) and a Master of Library and Information Science (2001) from the International Islamic University Malaysia, and earned her Ph.D. in Systems Science and Management from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2014. Her research interests include data librarianship and open science, bibliometrics and scholarly publishing, information systems, and information retrieval. Dr. Yanti has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and actively contributes to advancing scholarly communication and digital preservation practices. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science (JIF 0.423, JCR 2012) and has played a key role in academic leadership and curriculum development to strengthen the field of library and information science. She is also a Certified Data Steward (511650) from CDS eLearning Curve.

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