Keynote Speaker

Dr. Amran Rasli

Dr. Amran Rasli is a Professor at the Faculty of Business and Communication at Inti International University. He was formerly a professor at the Azman Hashim International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He has graduated 54 PhD students from UTM, 1 PhD student from Asia E University, 2 PhD students from University of Southern Australia; 21 Master students; and 22 undergraduate students. He is the principal investigator of 15 research projects worth RM1.2 million and had headed 29 consultancy projects valued at RM1.5 million. He was the postgraduate examiner for 93 PhD, 3 DBA and 5 MSc candidates from various local and international universities. He has written almost 200 articles (90 indexed by Scopus and 29 with ISI Journal Impact Factor); 5 textbooks; 7 book chapters and 4 novels. He has delivered keynote addresses at 20 international conferences as well as conducted 44 workshops and training programs. Professor Amran was a visiting professor at various institutions notably Indian Institute of Risk Management, Hyderabad, India; Hebei University, China; Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia and Kaunas Technological University, Lithuania. He was the Vice Chancellor of AbdulRahman Al-Sumait University, Zanzibar and Deputy Council Chairman of Muslim University of Morogoro, Tanzania and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Universiti Selangor.

Dr. Sydney Engelberg

Dr. Engelberg has been Master of a University College in Sydney, Australia; Founding Director of the Program in Community Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; taught at Clarke University and Derby University, England; and consulted to the World Bank, UNICEF, IBM, Microsoft and Intel.

He is currently on the faculty of the Schwartz Program in Nonprofit Management, School of Social Work and Social Welfare and the Nonprofit Management and Leadership program at the Rothberg International School, both at the Hebrew University, as well as being a senior faculty member at Ono Academic College, Jerusalem and a Visiting Professor at the Business School, University of Bologna, Italy. He has his own consulting practice with clients in the private, public and nonprofit sectors.

Dr. Engelberg has published widely and run executive workshops in Latin America, Europe, Great Britain and the USA.