Dr. Serina Rahman is conservation scientist, environmental anthropologist, and lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. She founded a local marine and fishery conservation group named "Kelab Alami" in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia.  She holds a PhD from Universiti Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam, Malaysia, on community empowerment and education for habitat conservation, and her Master in Applied Linguistics was from the University of Wales, Cardiff, specializing in Orientalism in colonial imagery.