Goh, Hong Ching is an Associate Professor at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya. She holds a Doctor of Natural Science degree (Geography) from the University of Bonn (attached to ZEF), Germany, a bachelor’s degree in urban and Regional Planning and an M.Sc. degree in Tourism Planning from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is a corporate town planner registered with the Board of Town Planners Malaysia. She was a recipient of the DAAD doctoral scholarship and a visiting scholar in the MIT-UTM Sustainable Cities Program, an alumna of the Global Young Academy and a fellow of the ASEAN Science Leadership Program. Her recent research interests focus on the interface of development and conservation domains and the cross-cutting challenges and implications, which include urban planning and urbanization- and environmental-related issues, tourism planning and management as well as the multi-level governance of natural resources.