Professor Dr. Ambigapathy Pandian is very well published, being the author and editor of more than 60 books and many articles featured in such prestigious journals. His work has been cited numerous times and has good authority in deciding for book purchase at the institutional level. Prof Ambigapathy is also Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University, Australia and Visiting Professor at Ramkhamheng University, Thailand, which allows for international contacts in disseminating this book.Dr. Vighnarajah is the Director of the Master of Education programme at Open University Malaysia (OUM). He brings over 15 years of experience in the education sector, having served as a school teacher, university lecturer, teacher trainer, and education consultant. His academic leadership spans both conventional and open university settings, including roles as a member of the University Senate, Acting Dean, Head of School, Head of Department, Chair of Teaching and Learning, and other key roles in the University. He is also an active consultant with NGOs and international schools. Dr. Vighnarajah’s expertise includes qualitative and mixed-methods research, e-learning, pedagogy, curriculum development, school leadership, instructional design, and academic quality assurance. He has received multiple accolades for teaching excellence and research, including Best Paper Awards and research grants from, among others, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), and the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU). In addition to his academic and administrative contributions, he actively supports scholarly publishing as an Executive Editor, peer reviewer, and academic advisor for several educational journals and international conferences.Weng Marc Lim is a Distinguished Professor and the Dean of Sunway Business School at Sunway University, an ASU-Cintana Alliance Global Partner Affiliate Faculty at Arizona State University in the United States of America, and an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and Sungkyunkwan University in the Republic of Korea. Professor Lim is the Record Holder for “Youngest Professor” in the Malaysia Book of Records and features in the Academy of Sciences Malaysia’s Top Research Scientists Malaysia and JCI’s Ten Outstanding Young Malaysians. With over 100 publications in prestigious “A*” and “A” ranked journals, Professor Lim’s research has been cited more than 30,000 times. As a thought leader, Professor Lim has led high-level discussions at AppliedHE, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Association of MBAs (AMBA), Business Graduates Association (BGA), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), Times Higher Education (THE), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Principles of Responsible Management Education (UNPRME), and World Economic Forum (WEF). Professor Lim holds a Bachelor of Business and Commerce with First Class Honors and a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University, and multiple certificates post-PhD, including a Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching (Higher Education) with High Distinction from Swinburne University of Technology and a Certificate in School Management and Leadership from Harvard University.Huey Fen Cheong is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. Her interests have been multidisciplinary, mainly linguistics, sociology, education, marketing, and psychology. Driven by a cultural and postcolonial perspective, she collaborated with a group of established scholars to initiate this Futures of Asia series (which contains this book) and the earlier COVID-19 in Malaysia series. These initiatives aim to promote Global South research and publications, especially on significant events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, post-pandemic normality and transformations, and the rise of AI, which equally matter to non-Western regions and deserve equal scholarly attention (and acceptance) beyond Western-centric frameworks in academia.
