Kok Loang Ooi, LLM, CMIIA, CIA, is an Adjunct Professor at City University Malaysia and a leading scholar in behavioural finance. He holds a PhD in Behavioural Finance and an MA in Finance from Universiti Sains Malaysia and an LLM in Business Law from the International Islamic University Malaysia. Formerly with KPMG, he has extensive experience in audit and advisory services. His research focuses on herding behaviour, investor sentiment, overreaction, ESG investing, cognitive biases, and AI¿driven financial markets. A Certified Internal Auditor and a member of The Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia, Dr. Ooi has published over 60 articles in Web of Science and Scopus¿indexed journals and is regularly invited to speak at international academic and policy forums.

Wee Yeap Lau is a Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics and an Academic Board Member of the AsiäEurope Institute, Universiti Malaya. A former MEXT scholar at Osaka University and AUA Fellow at UAE University, he has also been a Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore's Risk Management Institute. He holds a PhD and an MA in Economics from Osaka University and an MSc in Financial Engineering from NUS, supplemented by executive training at Princeton University. He has published over 70 Web of Science¿indexed articles, authored two books with Palgrave Macmillan, and contributed to professional publications for the Malaysian Insurance Institute and University Press. He is a member of CPA Australia and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, with research interests in insurance economics, financial engineering, and policy design.