Johari Hussein Nassor Amar is a Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor and Assistant Professor at Bond University in Australia, where she teaches valuation and various property-related subjects to both undergraduate and postgraduate property degree students. With more than 15 years of experience across academia, research and industry, she applies her commercial property expertise within a human-centric approach to explore the convergence of people, place and policy. This includes specialised work in aged and disability healthcare co-design. Her research and supervision encompass property valuation, affordable housing, built heritage and sustainable property futures, with a focus on integrating emerging technologies such as AI and LiDAR. Her work appears internationally in peer-reviewed academic journals, professional publications and mainstream media. Dr. Amar holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Bond University, an MSc in Real Estate Management from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and a BSc (Hons) in Land Management and Valuation from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Lynne Armitage was an Associate Professor in Urban Development at Bond University. Academically, Dr. Armitage lectured, led and established undergraduate and graduate programmes at UWS, University of Melbourne, QUT, Unitech Lae and Bond University. She has published over 50 refereed journal articles and consultancy reports, written and published four valuation and one land economics textbooks, authored two chapters in a valuation textbook for the American Institute of Appraisers and co-authored three book chapters with Dr. Amar on environmental offsets, heritage assets and people/environment fit (P-E Fit) for commercial office design. She held board positions with the Valuers' Queensland Registration Board and the Surveyors' Board of Queensland and chaired the RICS' Oceania Education and Professional Standards Board. In addition, she was an external examiner of RICS- and API-accredited bachelor's and master's degrees in property in Australia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.