Haslindar Ibrahim is currently a senior lecturer in finance at School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia and she earned her Ph.D from University of Malaya in 2009. Her current research interests include ownership concentration (family ownership), corporate governance, agency costs, capital structure, corporate performance, and Islamic finance. She has published in both local and international journals such as Malaysian Management Journal and Journal of Accounting, Management & Economic Research. She has also presented her research works in various conferences locally and internationally. She is also supervising Ph.D and master students and currently conducting a research which related to family- owned firms, corporate governance, and Islamic philanthropy related field