Nor Balkish ZakariaAssoc Prof Dr Nor Balkish is a chartered accountant (and currently the Deputy Director of Research & Innovation at the Accounting Research Institute of Universiti Teknologi MARA. She obtained several local research grants, including those from Institt Perakaunan Negara, SIRIM, FAMA, Kementerian Dalam Negeri, Jabatan Perdana Menteri, and Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi. She was also awarded the prestigious European ERASMUS grant, Marie Curie and few strategic research partnership grants from Universities in Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Professional Body of the Institute of Management Accountants in the USA and others. She was the Project Director for several joint training events involving UiTM and Malaysian Statutory Bodies in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand. She demonstrates her leadership by organising various UiTM MoAs with overseas counterparts (New Zealand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Maldives and South Korea) to enable matching research grants among these universities, which led UiTM to global joining publication teams. Read More Read Less