Donnie Adams is the Chair of Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education (CRICE) and a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya. He obtained his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Universiti Malaya under the Bright Sparks scholarship and was awarded the Universiti Malaya’s Excellence Award 2016: PhD Completion in Less than 3 Years. He was recently awarded the Emerald Young Researcher Award 2021 by Emerald Publishing and Universiti Malaya’s Excellence Service Award 2023. He is Editor-in-Chief for the International Online Journal of Educational Leadership (IOJEL) and Editor for Cogent Education. He is actively involved in research and development work towards the area of inclusive school leadership and school-wide reformation of inclusive education agenda in Malaysia. He has led research projects with the Ministries of Education in Malaysia & Maldives, The Department of Education, Philippines, The British Council, ETH Zürich, The HEAD Foundation, UNICEF, Asian Universities Alliance, and Teach for Malaysia. Recently, he is listed by Britishpedia as one of the 'Successful People in Malaysia' in the field of Education.