PROF. DATUK DR. DENISON JAYASOORIA is head of the secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group Malaysia on Sustainable Development Goals since October 2019 and a fellow of the Institute of International Harmony and Sustainable Development, Hong Kong, China. He holds a PhD in sociology from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, while his first degree is a Bachelor of Divinity from Union Biblical Seminary, Yeotmal, India. Previously he was a principal research fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies, National University of Malaysia (UKM) and is now an honorary professor. He served as a member of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia and the Royal Police Commission. He and his wife Rose Cheng Jayasooria worship at the DUMC Methodist Church in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia and they have three children and two grandchildren.