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Jawahitha Sarabdeen is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Business and Management at University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD). She spent seven years teaching and researching in Malaysia and a year in KSA before joining UOWD in 2007. She was previously Head, Law Unit and Chairperson, Centre of Excellence for Cyberlaw in Faculty of Management at Multimedia University, Malaysia. She is specialised in law and HRM. She is an award-winning and well-acknowledged faculty member for her excellence in both teaching and research at UOWD. She chairs the UOWD Disciplinary Committee. She is currently teaching law, business ethics and HRM for both undergraduate and postgraduate students while being actively engaged in several research projects, collaborations, consultancy, and editorial commitments for conferences and journals. Her extensive research has produced more than 40 research papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She has received many a prestigious research grants and awards. She has conducted a number of training and expertise exchange programmes on ICT legal issues, IP law and regulations, Corporate Governance, and Islamic Banking and Finance. She has also contributed to drafting legal policies and papers on Data Privacy and IP laws. Clients include international NGO's, government agencies, ministries and educational institutions. Jawahitha's principal research interests include legal and ethical issues of ICT and HRM, adoption of e-government, and Islamic banking and financial products.

Kamal Jaafar is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, UOWD. He has a PhD in Structural Engineering from Cambridge University. Approximation Theory. His areas of expertise are optimisation, logistics and supply chain management, operating systems, organizational planning and management, design studies and design theory.