Dr. Abul Hasnat Muhammad Solaiman is presently working as Professor and departmental head at Department of Horticulture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Bangladesh. He has completed his Ph.D. in Bio-Science from Iwate University, Japan. His main area of specialization includes Safe and organic Vegetable production, Medicinal Plants, Horticultural Crop Physiology, Innovative agriculture, Agro-4.0, Regenerative agriculture farming, Innovation incubation of new ventures, Sustainable Horticultural interventions in problems areas of Bangladesh. He is member of Bangladesh Society for Horticultural Science, GNOBB-Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists, JSPS alumni, JUAAB, Bangladesh Association of Biotechnology, Bangladesh Green Roof Movement (BGRM), Dhaka, Registered Graduate of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Alumni Association and Horticulturists’ Bangladesh, etc. He has been working as a specialist for the FAO of UN in Bangladesh. He worked for different corporate agriculture ventures promotion in Bangladesh. He has ran almost 15 projects funded by different Ministries of GoB. He has huge experiences in planning, designing, writing, and running of the projects. Currently he has established one Research and Innovation center in Dhaka funded by The World Bank Group. He has published 35 research articles in journals contributed as author/co-author. He has been working for recovering soil health promoting biochar and supervising 4 PhD students and eight MS students. Almost 30 students passed out getting MS degree under his supervision. He has an experience of 20 years in the field of horticulture industry development along with smart and future farming with AI, IoT in agriculture aligning agro 4.0. He established digital Fabrication laboratory (FAB LAB SAU) first in Bangladesh funded by HEQEP, UGC and The World Bank Group. He also runs a new innovative project funded by BCCTF, Govt of Bangladesh. He developed Face shield from FAB LAB SAU during covid- 19 pandemic and earned a remarkable popularity around the country.

Dr. Jatinder Kaur, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor with over 12 years of teaching and research experience in Image Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Nanotechnology. She has authored 20+ SCI-indexed papers in reputed international journals and guided several M.Tech theses and B.Tech projects. Recipient of AICTE VAANI grants in consecutive years, she has been honored with numerous awards, including Best Teacher and multiple appreciation recognitions from AICTE and the Ministry of Education’s Innovation Cell. Actively involved in conferences as a session chair, organizer, and technical committee member, Dr. Kaur continues to advance academic excellence through research, innovation, and mentorship.

Dr Leele Susana Binti Jamian completed her PhD in Educational Administration, Management and Leadership at the Faculty of Education, University Teknologi MARA, Malaysia in 2015. She also received her Master of Education in Educational Administration and Management from the International Islamic University (IIUM/UIA), Malaysia in 2001. Prior to that, she received her Bachelor of Education in Teaching of English as a Second Language (TESL) from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia@National University of Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia in 1994. Currently, she is a senior lecturer working at the Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. She has been a language teacher and instructor at public schools and institutions of higher education for more than 20 years. She had the experience of coordinating the Educational Management and Leadership program at the current university for almost ten years. Her vast working experiences in university would include teaching, lecturing and supervising both TESL and Educational Administration, Management & Leadership programs to various groups of students ranging from the primary school children, school headmasters/administrators, adult learners to postgraduate students both at masters and Phd levels. She has been actively involved as a researcher in numerous universities and government funded projects. Her interests lie in various aspects of TESL and Educational Administration, Management and Leadership. As to date she has been appointed as one of the university team members of High COE Research Project in the areas of Educational Administration, Management and Leadership. She also became the reference of expertise for new program development for various private and nonprivate Universities globally. During her PhD, numerous papers and research projects were written, presented and published both at local and international levels which were funded by The Research Management Institute (RMI), UiTM and The Ministry of Higher Education (KPT). She also won a few best papers during her Phd journey and will continue to write and publish more papers in her quest to be a social scientist. Finally, she has been actively writing papers for high impact journals and became an international plenary speaker in Educational Administration, Management and Leadership area for various levels of educational institutions globally. Further reference can be retrieved at https://mni331017c.weebly.com/ for her past academic related work.

Prof. Khalil was nominated as Member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Prime Minister of Pakistan in Oct 2022, Member Steering Committee, Planning Commission of Pakistan in 2023 and Member  Steering Committee NSER (BISP), Ministry of Poverty Alleviation, Govt of Pakistan in 2023.   Her responsibilities as Research Professor included undertaking contract and core research projects particularly in Development and Sustainable Development Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Climate Change Economics, Finance and Human Resource Economics, Institutional Economics etc. Contract research involves preparation of project proposals, methodology design, coordination and supervision of field surveys, computer data management and report writing; Teaching post graduate courses in Environmental Economics, Micro-Economics, Development Economics and supervision of MPhil and PhD theses.   Prof. Khalil is a Development Economist (by training) with PhD in Environmental Economics and Management from the University of York, UK &   M.Phil in Economics of Developing Countries, from the University of Cambridge, UK.  Prof. Khalil has done various courses (Ph.D. level) and got trained through training programs in Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management from the University of Berkeley, USA, University of Gutenberg, Sweden and Shiga University, Japan.  She is a winner of various scholarships / fellowships like Commonwealth Scholarship, Ford Foundation scholarship, SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency) scholarship, JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency, Government of Japan) scholarship. She also earned fellowships from the Government of France, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan and East West Centre, Washington D.C. USA, for research work in the areas of Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management Policy and Sustainable Development. Dr. Khalil has worked as consultant to number of International Agencies like World Bank, IUCN, ADB, WWF etc. and have undertaken various research and policy oriented studies related to issues in Economic Development, Environmental & Natural Resource Management and Sustainable Development.