Dr. 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 specialized 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. Dr.

Lynne Armitage was an Associate Professor, Urban Development, Bond University. She held a Diploma in Surveying from Oxford Brookes University, post-grad diploma in Urban Studies and Master of Environmental Planning (Macquarie University), and a PhD in commercial property market analysis, QUT. Academically, Lynne lectured, led and established undergraduate and graduate programs at UWS, Uni of Melbourne, QUT, Unitech Lae and Bond University. As well as having published over 50 refereed journal articles and consultancy reports, she wrote and published five 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 chairs the RICS' Oceania Education and Professional Standards Board. In addition, she was an external examiner of RICS and API accredited bachelor and master's degrees in property in Australia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.