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Having served at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) for 30 years as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Principal Lecturer/Associate Professor, Dr. Sankaran Ramanathan served for five years as Head, Special Projects, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. After operating in Singapore as COO of Mediaplus Consultancy (2001 – 2005), he set up Mediaplus Research Consultancy Malaysia, and then Mediaplus Consultancy USA, where he is the Principal. He holds a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Malaya, Postgraduate Diploma in Education (University of Malaya), Master of Science in Journalism cum laude (Ohio University), Certificate, Training for Trainers (International Institute for Journalism, Berlin) and Ph. D (University of Malaya). Among awards/recognition he has received are for Excellent Service (Khidmat Cemerlang) and long service (Khidmat Lama) from UiTM and Fellow, Institute of Public Relations Malaysia (FIPR). He is Lifetime Member of the Institute of Public Relations Malaysia (IPRM). Dr. Sankaran was Professor and Member, Panel of Experts, Graduate School, IIC University of Technology, Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 2015 to 2019. He has an extensive publication record, with more than 190 publications and editorship/authorship/co-authorship of 11 books. He is/has been on panel of reviewers for four journals (Media Asia, Asian Communication Journal, Journal of International Communication and Asia-Pacific Media Educator). Since 2017 he is member of the panel of reviewers for papers submitted to annual conferences of US-based Association for Education in Journalism, Media and Communication (AEJMC), of which he is a retired member.