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Suhaiza Zailani received her MSc in Operational Research and PhD in Management Science from Lancaster University, England, United Kingdom. She is a Professor of Supply Chain with the Faculty of Business and Econonomics, University Malaya. She was a Head of Training Section and Deputy Dean of Postgraduates and a Director to University of Malaya Entrepreneurship Center (UMEC). During her tenure as director, UMEC was chosen as one of the top 20 entrepreneurship centers worldwide by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business' (AACSB) Entrepreneurship Spotlight Challenge. This competition highlights the ways in which students at AACSB-accredited institutions are exposed to real-world business scenarios and given the tools they need to succeed in any type of business, from startups to multinational conglomerates  (https://aacsb.secure-platform.com/a/page/about/Entrepreneurship_Spotlight_Challenge/the_challenge). As of recently, she has been appointed as the Director of the Ungku Aziz Center (UAC), which aims to support the poor and vulnerable communities through collaborations with various government agencies and corporates.

Her field of expertise is in Supply Chain Management with a focus on the issues of sustainability and halal. Her achievements in SCM are excellent as is evident by the number and quantum of postgraduate students that she has supervised as well as the numbers of publications, research grants, consultations, training, industrial linkages, and professional appointments that she has successfully secured and fulfilled. She has written articles in the New Straits Times column on Supply Chain, for instance, SCM in the context of the New Economic Model and 1Malaysia Supply Chain: Reality or Myth. She has written a textbook in Operations Management and has now widely been used by the UG students and 2 other research books. She also has published more than 200 papers in various citation indexed journals on Operations Management, particularly in ISI-based and Scopus journals. Her current ISI H-Index is 36 with 4,345 total times cited, Scopus H-Index is 39 with 6,052 citations, and GS H-Index is 58 with 13203 citations as of 30 January 2023. She was nominated for Anugerah Akademik Negara by University Science Malaysia (USM) in 2012 and by University of Malaya (UM) in 2017. She won USM Sanggar Sanjung in 2012, was awarded the UM Distinguished Researcher in 2016, Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence in 2016 and 2019, and in 2021 and 2022, she was listed as one of the recipients for the Top 80 UM Researchers listed amongst the World’s Top 2% of scientists by Stanford University and was the only recipient from the arts discipline.