Kartini Aboo Talib Khalid has 14 years of progressive teaching and research experience at national and international levels. She began her career as a Senior Lecturer at Northeastern University (2006-2008), School of Political Science UKM (2008-2012), Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies (2013-present), and now serves as Deputy Director at the Institute of Ethnic Studies, UKM (2018-present). She was a Fulbright scholar at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, and graduated with a doctoral degree in Law, Policy, and Society. She trained as a policy analyst and completed five major national policy papers for the government (2014-2021). She has delivered keynotes at a few regional conferences, was an invited lecturer to Frankfurt Applied Sciences University for the DAAD Summer Academy Program (2013-2015), and was appointed Country Consultant for Malaysia to the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2014). She was a principal researcher and grant receiver for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (2020-2022), Sumitomo Foundation FY2012, member of DAAD grant (2012-2014), and member of the Nauman Stiftung grant (2010). Her research and publications focus on public policy and ethnicity revolving around gender, civil society, comparative politics, and consumerism.