Dr. Muhammad Rana is a full-time academic tutor and a leading researcher at UCEM. He has previously worked with the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Salford, and Highways England on various projects in the UK related to highway maintenance, simulation modeling, and lean construction. During the last four years, Dr. Muhammad Rana has won several research funding grants totaling up to £600k from the Innovate UK, Qatar National Research Fund, British Council, Harold Samuel, Salford University, Highways England, and CIB on various topics of Sustainability, Gender Equality, Off-site Construction, Energy Efficiency, Water Management, and Environmental Resilience.

Dr Rana is currently leading 3 British Council funded Projects on Gender Equality in Brazil, Pakistan and Vietnam. He has previously delivered similar 3 projects in Jordan and Egypt sucessfully.

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Dr. Noreen Saher holds the position of associate professor within the Faculty of Social Sciences at the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan. With a distinguished academic career spanning over 24 years, including ten years of teaching abroad at renowned foreign universities, she brings a wealth of international experience to her role. Dr. Saher's active participation in various international research groups, such as the Cross-Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers (C5) and initiatives focusing on leadership across cultures, highlights her dedication to fostering global academic exchange.

Throughout her career, Dr. Saher has made significant contributions to academia, with a notable portfolio of 61 research articles published and presented in prestigious international peer-reviewed journals, books, and conferences.

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Professor Lee has an extensive academic career spanning over 25 years. After successfully completing her PhD with no corrections in 2002, she now has a Chair in Process and Performance Management in Construction. She has previously held Associate Dean roles in: Research; International; Enterprise; and Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI); and Head of Department roles at the Universities of Salford and Huddersfield. She joined the institution in April 2022 to support the growth and development of research, including research degrees. She has published over 300 journal and conference publications based on her research, including 6 books, and has managed numerous externally funded research projects to successful completion.

Professor Lee is currently the External Assessor of the Department of Building Surveying, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Angela has been appointed as an Honorary Research Professor at the University of Salford since 2023.

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Dr. Lekan Damilola OJO obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, in 2023. His Ph.D. dissertation investigated the minimization of corruption in construction projects via value management. He won the Laurence D. Miles Value Foundation (MVF) scholarship of the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE) in 2020.

He also developed a framework for adopting value management in the Nigerian construction industry in his Master’s thesis, and the outputs are published in referred journals. To his credit, he has published over 30 refereed publications in international journals and conferences. He joined the HKIVM as a member in 2023 and has immensely assisted the institute.