Professor Dr Faridah Hj Hassan, at InQKA, Deputy President of World Academy of Islamic Management is the founder of iHalal Management and Science (iHALALMAS), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.  Previously she was a Director, Institute of Business Excellence, heading the research consultancy, training and publication unit. Her appointments were among others twice as a Dean Faculty of Business and Management, an independent Board of Director as well as a former Panel Investment Advisor for PMB public listed trust fund company.

Currently, she is an external examiner for several public and private local universities and colleges, an active Fellow Member of professional CiM Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK), vice president for the MACFEA Malaysian Association of Consumers and Family Economics, Advisor to WIMTC World Islamic Marketing and Trade Chamber, Chief Editor for MAJCAFE Malaysian Journal of Consumers and Family Economics (scopus), Assistant Editor for JIMA Journal of Islamic Marketing (scopus) and a Board Council and Regional Member for CIMM Malaysian Chartered Institute of Marketing.