Professor Dr Murali Raman is Dean of the Faculty of Management and Professor at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya. He obtained his Doctorate in Management Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University, California in 2005 and holds an MSc in Human Resource Management (London School of Economics, UK) and an MBA (Imperial College, London, UK). He is a first-class honour Bachelor’s degree holder in Business Administration, University Malaya and is a Rhodes Scholar and Fulbright Fellow. He has published more than 85 papers in international journals, conferences, and book chapters and has written/edited several books in Information Management. His doctoral dissertation was in using the Knowledge Management (KM) System (wiki technology as a collaborative tool) to assist emergency preparedness efforts at the Claremont Colleges in the US.

Prior to MMU, Dr Murali worked in the corporate sector at Maybank Berhad (1994-1996) and Accenture Consulting (1997-2001). He was also a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Sunway Campus (2007-2008). He served as the Emergency Response Management Assistant at the Claremont University Consortium (CUC) working with senior management in Emergency Preparedness at the Claremont Colleges between 2003-2005. He has also published numerous papers on emergency preparedness – with largely a KM perspective in several leading journals. Dr Murali has consulted and trained at organisations in the US, Ghana, Australia, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore and the Middle East on issues pertaining to business performance, leadership, personal development, IT Strategy and Management.