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Contributor Biographies

Biographies in the order as authors’ articles appear in the journal

Fumitaka Furuoka is a visiting senior research fellow at Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He
obtained Ph.D. from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2002. His research interests include labor economics and
international economics.

Aida Idris is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business and Accountancy, and the Deputy Executive
Director of Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. Before joining the world of academia, she had worked
as an engineer and a consultant in several multinational firms in Malaysia. Her research interests include SME
development, entrepreneurship, cross-cultural management, and international education.

Beatrice Lim is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy at Universiti Malaysia
Sabah. Beatrice obtained her PhD in Economics from University of Wollongong in 2017. Her research interests
include labor economics and gender studies.

Rostika Petrus Boroh is a lecturer at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy at Universiti Malaysia
Sabah. Rostika holds a Masters in Human Capital from Universiti Malaysia Sabah in 2009. Her research interests
include labor economics and human capital.

Bruno Mascitelli is Associate Professor in International Studies at Department of Social Sciences, Swinburne
University of Technology. He is President of the European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA) and also
School Council President of the Victorian School of Languages. His research interests are European studies,
Australian Trade policy, Italian migration, International Business, European Political economy, Italians in
Australia, Expatriate voting in the world.

Amira Athira Azman is a Master's degree candidate in ASEAN Studies (IMAS) at the Asia Europe Institute,
University of Malaya and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations, minoring in Economics and
Chinese from the University of Queensland, Australia. Her areas of interest include International relations theory,
Asia-Europe relations, global governance and Development studies. She often finds herself a realist-constructivist
when looking at the world politics because she believes that both theories can be reciprocal in ordaining the
knowledge relating to social construction and claims about human nature.

Sameer Kumar has a PhD in Social Networking and currently works as a Senior Lecturer at Asia-Europe
Institute, University of Malaya. His current research and teaching interests are in the field of Social Networks,
Business and History of Southeast Asia, with bi-regional focus involving Asia and Europe.

Azirah Hashim is Executive Director of the Asia-Europe Institute and Professor in the English Language
department at the University of Malaya. Her research interests are in Language Contact in Southeast Asia, ASEAN
Higher Education and Academic and Professional Discourse.

Aliyyah Nuha Faiqah Azman Firdaus is a Project Officer at the Asia-Europe Institute and Centre for ASEAN
Regionalism University of Malaya. Her research interests include environmental communication, professional
communication, sustainability reporting and language for specific purposes (LSP).

Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström is a senior lecturer in Communication at the SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Research
Center and Division of Communicaiton and Cognition at the University of Gothenburg. She studiesintercultural
communication and communication in health care.

Elisabeth Ahlsén is a professor of Neurolinguistics at the SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Research Center and Division
of Communicaiton and Cognition at the University of Gothenburg. She studies communication disorders,
pragmatics and multimodal communication.

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