Ts. Dr. Nur Affah
Mohyin

Ts. Dr. Nur Affah Mohyin is a GRI-Certified Sustainability Professional and a Registered Professional Technologist (MBOT) with over 20 years of combined academic, industry and leadership experience. Her expertise spans ESG strategy and reporting, sustainable built environment, human capital management and social impact programme design. She brings a multidisciplinary perspective to helping organisations translate sustainability commitments into practical initiatives, informed decisions and credible reporting.

As an Assistant Professor at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), she leads applied research with industry and government stakeholders. This includes a national-level standardised cost management framework for facilities management, which promotes sustainable asset management through better planning, estimating, and resource allocation. She also led a study on the operation, maintenance and lifecycle costs of elderly care centres, linking asset sustainability to service quality and wellbeing.

Her human capital expertise covers organisational commitment, talent development and professional ethics, supported by research on HRM strategies in professional services firms. During her CEO@Faculty fellowship with CIMB Group, she supported corporate HR initiatives, leadership development and talent management, gaining hands-on exposure to corporate governance and large-scale CSR projects.

Nur Affah has led community programmes that put the “S” in ESG into practice, including financial literacy for underserved communities and intergenerational eldercare. She has also contributed to a multi-stakeholder CSR programme for indigenous communities, bringing together government, academia, corporates and NGOs. She mentored on the LIGHT leadership programme, which was a finalist for the International Green Gown Award.

On the governance side, she heads IIUM’s Technology Transfer Office, overseeing research commercialisation, intellectual property management and innovation governance, and has served as an ISO 9001:2015 internal auditor.

She holds a PhD in Construction Management from Loughborough University, UK, and has received IIUM awards for community responsibility and for partnership and collaboration.