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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, 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.

Miandy Munusamy is an Administrative and Diplomatic Officer of Public Service Department, Malaysia. He
joined the Policy Coordination and International Division, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) in
April 2009 as a desk officer for multilateral cooperation. In September 2017, he started his Doctorate study at
Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. His research is on Internationalisation of Higher Education in
Malaysia and The ASEM Education Process.

Azirah Hashim is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Malaya and currently, Executive Director of the
Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. Her research interests include Academic and Professional Discourse,
Language Contact in SE Asia and Higher Education in ASEAN. Her publications include co-edited
volumes, ‘Communicating with Asia: the future of English as a Global Language’ by Cambridge University Press
and ‘International Arbitration Discourse and Practices in Asia’ by Routledge, London and articles in World
Englishes, Text and Talk, Multilingua and Discourse Studies.

Patrick Ziegenhain from Germany is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Business Administration
at Atma Jaya University in Jakarta/ Indonesia. Previously, he had been Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe
Institute of University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Interim Professor at the Department of Southeast
Asian Studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany (2015), Visiting Professor at De la Salle University
Manila/ Philippines in 2014 and Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Department of Political Science,
University of Trier/ Germany (2007-2014).

Lili Yulyadi Bin Arnakim is currently a Faculty Member at the Faculty of Humanities and attached at
Department of International Relations, BINUS University, Jakarta as Lecturer Specialist, and a visiting professor
at the Asian- Europe Institute (AEI), University of Malaya. His current research project is on Revisiting
“Development” in Developing Countries: A Comparative Study between Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Nurliana Kamaruddin is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. She
earned her PhD in International Studies majoring in Development Cooperation at Ewha Womans University,
Seoul and her Masters in International Cooperation at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. She teaches East
Asian Society at the undergraduate level in the East Asian Studies Department, and Political Security Agenda of
ASEAN at the Masters level in Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya.

Naziaty Mohd Yaacob is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Malaya. She
obtained her doctorate in 2009 from the University of Salford, UK. She teaches architectural design, theory and
philosophy, architectural research and universal design. Naziaty is a disability advocate in Malaysia since 1998.
She was one of the National Council Member for the Persons with Disabilities Act 2008 for the first two terms,
expert reference in Accessibility and Universal Design for UNESCAP. In 2015, she founded ZaSve currently a
pre-startup business entity under UM Innovations Sdn. Bhd.

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