Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Zafir Khan Bin Mohamed Makhbul merupakan profesor dalam bidang pengurusan sumber manusia dan pengurusan organisasi di UKM-Graduate School of Business (UKM-GSB) serta Fakulti Ekonomi dan Pengurusan. Bermula tahun 2021, Profesor Zafir telah dilantik sebagai Dekan di UKM-GSB. Beliau berpengalaman lebih 27 tahun dalam pengajaran dan penyelidikan bersama UKM, dan pengalaman industri di Motorola, Hong Leong Finance dan Agrobank. Sepanjang kerjaya sebagai ahli akademik, beliau pernah dipinjamkan sebagai Timbalan Pengarah di Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi. Lebih 50 buah buku hasil nukilan beliau menjadi rujukan utama dan sampingan di Institusi Pendidikan Tinggi Awam dan Swasta. Di samping itu, beliau juga merupakan kolumnis dan penulis prolifik media arus perdana termasuklah sebagai kolumnis Dewan Ekonomi dan Dewan Masyarakat, DBP. Sehingga kini, lebih 200 artikel tulisan beliau sebahagian besarnya merupakan hasil penyelidikan telah disiarkan di media arus perdana. Beliau juga adalah pemilik 20 hak cipta di UKM yang digunakan dalam penyebaran ilmu kepada masyarakat dan industri. Beliau juga sering menerima undangan sebagai penceramah dan pelatih di beberapa buah organisasi besar seperti Maybank, KWSP, RHB Bank, TNB, Tabung Haji, JPA, MPSJ, INTAN, NIOSH, Agensi Nuklear Malaysia, dan seumpamanya. Beliau turut memegang keahlian badan profesional iaitu Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management, The American Institute of Stress dan Malaysian Industrial Hygiene Association. Antara pengiktirafan yang diterima atas kecemerlangan beliau ialah Anugerah Tokoh Akademik Bahasa Melayu Peringkat Kebangsaan, Anugerah Buku Negara, Anugerah Bitara Bahasa Melayu UKM, Anugerah Kecemerlangan Malaysia Research Assessment (MyRA) UKM, Anugerah Perkhidmatan Cemerlang UKM, Anugerah Prestasi Cemerlang KPT, Pingat Emas dan Perak dalam Pameran Rekabentuk dan Inovasi UiTM.
Dr. Zafir Khan Bin Mohamed Makhbul is a human resource management and organisational management professor at UKM-Graduate School of Business (UKM-GSB) and the Faculty of Economics and Management. Professor Zafir has been appointed as Dean of UKM-GSB starting on March 2021. He has more than 27 years of experience teaching and researching with UKM and industrial experience in Motorola, Hong Leong Finance, and Agrobank. Throughout his career as an academician, he was seconded as Deputy Director at the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. This prolific writer has written more than 50 books, and they have become the primary source and additional references at Public and Private Higher Learning Institutions. He is also a columnist and a prolific writer in the mainstream media, including a columnist in Dewan Ekonomi and Dewan Masyarakat Magazine by the Institute of Language and Literature (DBP). To date, he has written more than 200 articles, most of which are research outcomes that have been published in the mainstream media. He is also the owner of 20 copyrights in UKM used to contribute to the community and the industry. He is also often invited as a speaker and trainee at several prominent organisations, such as Maybank, EPF, RHB Bank, TNB, Tabung Haji, JPA, MPSJ, INTAN, NIOSH, Malaysian Nuclear Agency and so on. He also has a position in professional bodies, namely the Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management, The American Institute of Stress, and the Malaysian Industrial Hygiene Association. Among his achievements and recognitions are the Tokoh Akademik Bahasa Melayu Award MOHE, National Book Award, UKM Bitara Malay Language Award, Malaysia Research Assessment (MyRA) Excellence Award UKM, Excellent Service Award by UKM etc.