Dr. Silvia C. Ambag

Dr. Silvia C. Ambag is currently the Chief of the Center for Research Management Services, Research and Extension Management Office, Office of the Vice President for Research, Extension Planning, and Development of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. She also served as the Course Specialist in Open University System and faculty member and Chief of Extension Services in the College of Education in the same school. She graduated her Doctor in Educational Management in Polytechnic University of the Philippines and Master in Educational Management in the same university. Invitations as an expert in research made Dr. Ambag a recognized Senior Reviewer in the Fifth Annual Conference on Asian Studies, Japan and a member of the Royal Fellow Institute in Singapore. She is also member of the Association of Scholarly Editors and Association of Scholarly Reviewers of Philippine Association of Institutions for Research, Inc. She is also recognized as the Research Coordinator and Member of Global Illuminators in Malaysia. She is also part of Research, Extension and Professional Organizations like Phi lambda Taeta, Board Director in Las Damas de Rizal- Philippine Chapter, Member of Philippine Association for Business Educators, Member of Teachers Organization of the Philippines, Member of Philippine Association for Teachers Education, Member of Philippine Association of Educators in Office Administration Foundation, Inc. and Member of Philippine Association of Institutions for Research, Inc. Moreover, she was also invited as speaker in various seminars and trainings like Personality Development Seminars, Resume Writing , Computer Literacy Training, Adobe Photoshop Training and Research Writing of 2 nd International Conference on Multidisciplinary Trends in Academic Research (MTAR-September 29-30, 2015) MTAR © 2015 Bangkok, Thailand Global Illuminators, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. xxi the Master Teachers and Principals of Twenty Schools in Schools in the District of Cabiao, Nueva Ecijia. She was also awarded Outstanding Faculty Member of Systems Technology Institute (2000-2006), Outstanding Faculty Member of Polytechnic University of the Philippines Laboratory High School (2006-2013), Outstanding Faculty Member of College of Education, (2013-2015). She is also an adviser to thesis writers students and a paper presenter in Indonesia, Japan and Thailand.

 

PROF. Dr. Evan Lau (PhD)

Dr. Evan Lau is a well-trained Universiti Putra Malaysia graduate with vast experience and research excellence covering the areas of International Economics with numerous applications of econometrics techniques. Recently he ventured into socioeconomic discipline including Economics of Crime and Suicide. He joined Faculty of Economics and Business Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in 2005 soon after completing his Ph.D in 2004. He was servicing as a senior lecturer since 2008 and promoted to Associate Professor from June 2014 to date. He holds the Managing Editor post for International Journal of Business and Society (IJBS), an internationally refereed journal indexed in SCOPUS bibliographic database, Malaysian Citation Centre (MCC), ProQuest publisher, Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory, Cabell’s Directories (Economics, FINANCE and Management) and EBSCO Host Publishing. He is the director of Centre of Excellence for Business, Economics and Finance Forecasting (BEFfore), UNIMAS which among other serves as a platform and reference point for business, economic and finance forecasting. He was the Visiting Scholar in Faculty of Economics in University of Cambridge. He teaches both the undergraduates and the graduate courses.

To date, Evan Lau has impressive volume of articles in refereed journals (more than 70) and has also presented his research WORKS in many international and local conferences. As part of recognition and internationalization, he was listed as Top 10% economists in Malaysia since 2008 and Top 12% in Asia since 2012 by the Research Papers in Economics RePEc database. He was also cited as Top 10 Most Productive Malaysian Based Authors in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the year from 2001 to 2010, published by the Malaysian Citation Centre (MCC) in 2012. He also indeed contributed to society in terms of economic research studies. Thus, an invitation was extended to him for interviews in several special programs on Budget (2006, 2011), post budget 2013 and live radio interview in 2012 and 2014 on the Malaysian broadcasting station. His profile is also made available at SCOPUS, RePEc, Research Gate, Google Scholar and Academia where he was among the highly cited authors in UNIMAS.