Bryan kicked off his varsity debate career by making it to multiple local novice and open finals in his first year at IIUM. Since then he has been the vice president of the IIUM English Debate Club in which he helped coordinate and organize various debate tournaments for his university. He has been very active in the debate scene and his notable achievements along the years include recently being the ESL Grand Finalist at the prestigious Oxford Inter-Varsity Debating Championship 2022 and a ESL Semi-Finalist at the prestigious Cambridge Inter-Varsity Debating Championship 2022 as well as making it to the knockout rounds of major tournaments such as the Asian British Parliamentary Debating Championship 2021, United Asians Debating Championship 2020 and Australasian Inter-Varsity Debating Championship 2021. Bryan’s classes are matter packed, filled with strategy and very interactive, he believes that every student has their own unique potential just waiting to be unlocked.

Asvine Pillai is the Course Senior Executive & Trainer Management at MIDP. Her background in Diploma in Education (TESL) and Bachelor of Education (Honours) – TESL, helps her understand the importance of having a proper pedagogical approach in training and she also helps to develop the training syllabus in MIDP.

Asvine has spent the past 3 years teaching as the Senior Teacher for English, Science, PJK and MUET subjects from Year 4 up to Form 6 for primary and secondary schools in both the Government and Private sectors. She is passionate about public speaking and performing arts. She has been actively involved in the scene and her other experiences includes being a judge for the SKSJ Public Speaking Competition 2016, Art Director and Crew for a play production titled “The Curse of Lusitania” at the Performing Arts Theatre in Management and Science University. Overall, she is a very fun, interactive and engaging educator with lots of interesting hobbies.

Tess first started debating competitively in University. Under team Malaya, she debated and judged numerous tournaments and championships both locally and internationally. She went on to be an ESL Semi-finalist in Australasians Debating Championship 2018 and Finalist of the Malaysian National Royals 2018 before graduating in 2019. She also has experience teaching internationally in countries like China and Qatar. As a full time educator now, Tess works with children and teenagers on a daily basis and has over 5 years of experience in curating lessons that are effective and interactive.

Even since she was little, Alka has always loved speaking. A former national public speaking champion, Alka has won the Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor Public Speaking Challenge Trophy, Youth Speaks for the Nation Elocution Contest, and several other accolades.

Alka also began taking an interest in international relations and policy issues, leading her to take part in Model United Nations Conferences. Through MUN, she has won awards including Best Delegate, Most Outstanding Parliamentarian, and Most Diplomatic Delegate. Now, she is a climate activist and founder of the Malaysian Youth Climate Action Pact, former coordinator of the Malaysian Youth Delegation Capacity Building Working Group, as well as former contact point of the Human Rights Working Group in the Youth Official Constituency to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change. A lover of unicorns and all things pink, Alka is now pursuing her Bachelor of Economics in USM Penang.

Sharyfa fell in love with the art of debating five years ago when she began her journey. In her first year of competitive debating, she managed to bag the Novice Overall Best Speaker award at UT MARA Open 2017. Since then, she has appeared in numerous break rounds of debate tournaments, such as being a three-time semi-finalist of the Malaysian National Intervarsity Championship and a two-time grand finalist of the Borneo British Parliamentary Championship.

Apart from debating, Sharyfa enjoys judging debates and has judged international competitions across Asia, including China, Bangladesh, and Singapore. She views her involvement in being a judge as an integral part in the development and growth of young and upcoming debaters. Most recently, she was awarded as the Overall Best Judge in the Malaysia National Schools Debating Championship 2021. As a coach, Sharyfa has been a part of several workshops and has found a passion for teaching the next generation of debaters. She is a firm believer that the skills that come with debating are fundamental in everyday life. Hence, she is committed to ensuring her classes will not only aid students in becoming great speakers but also great critical thinkers. She is excited to share her vast knowledge with her students in an interactive, accessible, yet fun way.

Danesh began his competitive debate journey as a freshman representative for University Malaya’s famed debating club in a local tournament and has continued debating since. He has collected numerous accolades, namely two-time Asian Quarterfinalists, Open Octofinalist of the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships (Australs), Semifinalist of the World’s Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) English as Second Language (ESL) Category. He has also made the Cambridge IV Finals (ESL) and was Champion of Australs (ESL) in 2020 while bagging the finals best speaker award. Locally, Danesh has won 3 national titles and has made multiple top 10 best speaker lists. He looks forward to having informative and enjoyable classes.

If Tariq’s love for debating were a child, they would be taking SPM right now. Having won multiple trophies for Universiti Teknologi MARA and making it to the semifinals of international tournaments such as the All-Asians and Asian British Parliamentary Championships, he was later appointed the Chief Adjudicator of Australs in 2013. He has taught in Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong, and his students have proceeded to represent their illustrious universities in the United Kingdom and United States. Tariq believes that in allowing each student’s inner voice to flourish and blossom. His philosophy, whether in debating or in weekly quizzes he regularly participates in, is simply: whether you win or lose, learning something new is its own reward. Fun fact: Tariq coached or coached the coaches of half the debate trainers here at MIDP.

Hanania is a budding talent in the public speaking world while also competitively debating internationally. Hanania is passionate in youth and women empowerment and she has emceed 2 massive international events that uplifts women and children alike. She launched herself in the debating scene by being one of the top 10 Novice Speakers in Malaysia. She is always looking for ways to share her knowledge and experience in advocacy and public speaking by being an invited speaker in workshops, and forums. Hanania is a member of Brand Integration, Youthcare Malaysia where she works to integrating the movement to an entertainment-friendly advocacy. Hanania offers a unique perspective to public speaking as she values confidence in individual speaker and will work tirelessly to harness the talent she sees in her class.

Salleh started debating in the year 2020 since being elected as Vice President at their college’s debate club and has broken opens at over 20 tournaments since. As a novice they won the Asia Novice Debate Open 2021 while being the 2nd best speaker. Nationally, they have broken at the Malaysian National Inter-varsity Debate Championship 2021 while being the 2nd best speaker at that tournament and subsequently was a member of the adjudication core for the Malaysian National Universities Debate Championship in 2022. Salleh’s most notable achievements include making the Open Semifinals for Doxbridge 5, Uhuru Worlds 2022, an open break at Doxbridge Worlds 2022, as well as the Open Grand Finals for East Coast Debate Open 2021, East Malaysia Open 2022 and Korea Inter-varsity Debate Association Open 2022 where they won their first open tournament. As an adjudicator they’ve judged the Division 1 and 2 finals of the Singapore Primary School Debate Open 2022, and was the 2nd Best Adjudicator at Hanoi Debate Tournament 2022. Salleh is extremely competitive and is looking forward to bringing that into their teachings.

One fateful afternoon, Elia decided to take a peek into his local varsity debate training and ever since then, he was hooked. Elia fell in love with the sport and sincerely believes that his years of debating contributed to building the person he is today. In his debating years, he held the Vice President title of the IIUM Debate Club in which he had participated and excelled in over 30 local and international tournaments combined. Elia is also an active adjudicator in the scene whereby he has been invited to adjudicate debate tournaments in Cambodia, Vietnam and China in the past couple of years. Locally, he has racked several notable achievements including the top speaker at the Malaysian National Debating Championship 2021, Malaysia’s largest university-level debating championship. Aside from debating, Elia also teaches public speaking as he believes that being introduced to critical thinking skills from different sports shapes youths holistically and prepares them for the future.

Syafiq is very passionate individual when it comes to debating. His journey started from high school when he joins Public Speaking tournaments before joining competitive debating in varsity. As a debater, his achievements begins with being the Novice Runner-Up for the Malaysian National Intervarsity Debating Championship (MNIDC) 2019 as well as bagging the top 5 novice best speaker in his first year of debating to being the finalist for the Malaysian National Intervarsity Debate Championship (MNIDC) 2021 and being the 5th best speaker of the tournament. As a trainer, Syafiq aims to assist the students to the outmost of his abilities as a way for him to give back to the debating community of Malaysia. His passion for debating is the drive for him to help other people enjoy debating just as much as he does.

Iqmal has been a passionate speaker ever since 2015 when he first entered into the world of debating. He began his journey in Model United Nations in 2018 and has attained a plethora of awards ever since. The most recent of which was the Most Outstanding Delegate Award in the 2022 Taylor’s Lakeside Model United Nations. Apart from MUNs, Iqmal also loves the nitty gritty work of legal research which propelled him to become a Finalist of the Philip C. International Law Moot Court Competition (European Rounds). Equipped with the skills of advocacy, research, negotiating skills and his love towards meaningful conversations & above all, listening to new insights, he hopes to pass on this knowledge and passion to those he meets.

Terence has coached students that have made it to national-level debate finals in China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. He derives joy from inviting people to look at ideas from angles they are unfamiliar with. Winning just happens to be a happy side effect.

Sri started dabbling in public speaking at the age of 13. She did it to overcome her fear of speaking in public. With consistent effort, she managed to overcome it and became a deputy prefect in her school. During her studies at UiTM, she also became the emcee several events. One of which was for Induction Week and she did it for 3 semesters consecutively. Currently, she works as a Corporate Trainer and Policy Specialist at a well-known IT firm in Kuala Lumpur. She spends her time communicating with stakeholders and giving policy presentations to Operators within the project. Sri believes that public speaking helped her to secure the best opportunities that was presented to her and she wishes to share it with her students. Her goal is to inspire young minds to be creative and confident in portraying themselves. Everything is possible once you believe in yourself.

Amirah has been involved in Model United Nations conferences on national and international levels. Amirah has recently been awarded as the Outstanding Delegation in Youth Summit for Model Global Environmental Negotiation 2021 organized by Peking University School of International Studies and World Wide Fund for Nature Beijing and a Honorable Mention delegate in Student Energy Model United Nations Conference (SE-MUN) Process Engineering and Energy Days organized by the University of Indonesia.With a passion in policy making and the science behind it, Amirah aims to create an inclusive discussion on both foreign and local issues in her class.

Lois is a university student who has been teaching English to young students aged between 6 to 17 for the past 2 years. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Education at the University of Malaya. In 2020, she graduated with distinction for her Bachelor’s Degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL). She is an active proponent of youth empowerment and development. As a teacher, Lois is a strong advocate for creative expression, freedom of speech, interactivity and engagement, as well as critical thinking in the classroom. Well-versed in conducting English proficiency classes, camps and activities, she believes wholeheartedly in creating a positive, supportive snd safe space for students to develop self-confidence and express themselves. With encouragement and guidance, she hopes to inspire her students to discover new facets to the English language and realise their full potential.

Fresh from the Master in Public Policy programme at King’s College London, Aina brings with her over 8 years of debating experience and 9 years of teaching experience. She was recently selected to give a TEDx talk in London where she presented her research on unpaid care work. In her varsity years, she won eight national titles and represented Malaysia at various international tournaments. Aina is a full-time legal professional who loves spending her weekends teaching children about current affairs and the art of public speaking. When she sees her students passionately arguing for women’s rights, quality education and universal healthcare, she knows that her job is done.

Wesley is an Asian semifinalist, two times National finalist, and two times champion of Taylor’s Debate Open. Part of the successful BAC team, he entertained debaters and judges with his casual, witty, yet efficient debating style. Since then, he has coached and judged locally and internationally, notably being elected as the Deputy Chief Adjudicator of the Nationals, and coaching the Australasian Debate Training Initiative. Being fluent in English and Chinese, he is also able to explain concepts in both languages. As a coach, Wesley prides himself on providing valuable insights on current affairs, incisive feedback, and clear guidance — all in a supportive and conducive learning environment. Wesley is highly competitive, and hopes to bring that spirit to his students. As opposed to more rigid approaches to debating, he places more emphasis on common sense, clarity, and most of all, in having fun along the way! Debating has opened many doors for Wesley, and he hopes to help the next generation of debaters achieve the same.

Sandra has been actively involved as a member of the Model United Nation community for the past 7 years. Her accomplishments include chairing at International Model United Nations, several best delegate awards and most passionate speaker at MCKLMUN, PenangMUN, SUNMUN, and MONMUNIC. Outside of MUN, Sandra has also won the Policy-Making Competition held by Skills Career Youth in conjunction with the Sheffield Malaysian Students Association, earning her a mention in the Star newspaper. Sandra is passionate about passing on her knowledge and giving back to the MUN community and looks to make her classes an engaging experience for all.

Taqiyuddin Redzuan has always had a burning passion for debating ever since being exposed to the debating scene in his high school days. His achievements in the debating circuit include being the ESL Semifinalist of Korea Pre-World Universities Debating Championship 2020 and ESL Quarterfinalist of Doxbridge Worlds 2021. On top of his stellar debating achievements, he has judged multiple tournaments both locally and internationally during his competitive debating era. Taqi has always believed in improving access to the younger generations by providing the same transformative tools of speech and critical thinking that he was fortunate enough to receive. He is a fun and cheerful person that will surely impart great knowledge to his students and inspire them to be better speakers and better people.

Emellia is a lawyer by profession and a speech coach by passion with her expertise as a litigator and coaching experience for the past 9 years, Emellia is one of the most renowned speech trainers in Malaysia. Emellia is Malaysia’s national champion in 2012 and was awarded the top 10 best speaker awards 6 times in both Malaysia and Singapore. Internationally, she was a semifinalist of the Asian British Parliamentary Debating Championship 2 times in a row and a quarterfinalist of the United Asian Debating Championship. As a judge, Emellia has broken in multiple international competitions including in Singapore, Indonesia, China, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. As a coach, Emellia has successfully trained a group of students to win the Asian Schools Debating Championship in 2014 and rank top 10 in the World’s Scholar’s Cup in 2017 and 2018. Emellia’s passion in education has led to her appointment as CEO of MIDP.

Azim’s passion for communication and soft skills training was sparked by an introduction to debate and public speaking. He has excelled both competitively, becoming a two-time Malaysian National debate champion, as well as numerous achievements that have brought him from Australia to China, and South Africa. He also takes an active measure to develop new speakers and encourage active participation in his tenure as the Chair of the Asian and Malaysian Debate Councils respectively. Even from his days as a student, the development of soft skills training has been his interest.

Hailing from a background in Communications, Azim makes it his core tenet to not just develop effective communication skills, but to also make it entertaining and informative. With his years of experience in training, he believes that critical cognition and speech is a craft that can be taught, honed, and perfected through study and practice.

Angel is passionate about speaking efficiently. She is a strong advocate for students to be opinionated and expressive with their thoughts.
Have had been in the F&B business, she understands the importance of being articulated with words and presenting a spirited presence so she always managed to win the hearts of customers and colleagues with her service. As for her hobby, she gives credit to her family for instilling a habit of reading and loves nothing more than sitting with her nose buried in a book.
As a dedicated reader, academic success wasn’t difficult for Angel as she graduated with honours in Bachelor of Education in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) and is currently pursuing another degree in Bachelor in Legal Studies. Not to mention, her vast collection of books. As for her teaching career, Angel has always believed in improving the lives of others through education. She has taught in an SMK and provided private tutoring to students of all ages, therefore has experience in teaching students of various ages. She has shown herself to be someone who upholds admirable standards unto all her students and expects nothing less than constant improvement of oneself.
Angel is a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and dedicated educator who wants all children to be successful and expressive learners.

R.AGE Investigative Journalist and host turned Broadcast Journalist, Emcee, and Voice Over Artist. Myrra Baity has a wide range of experience speaking to the public through various mediums. Aside from those mentioned above, she is also a featured spoken word poet who has performed for poetry exhibitions such as “My Malaysia Is…” and “Urbanscapes Jalan Dalam show”. As an avid debater since the age of 16, Ms Baity has represented her state in the Datuk Wira Cup in high school and was among the Top 10 best speakers at the Gender Debates in University. As a person, she only has one goal in life, which is to help people, she has exhibited this through her 3-year-long run as a National Campaign manager and ideator for the award-winning #Standtogether Kindness Bullying Prevention Campaign, where she ideated and executed 4 nationwide programs for High school and Primary school students alongside Unicef Malaysia, TeachForMalaysia and the Ministry of Education.

Syasya Fooad is a current Final Year English Linguistics major from IIUM, and is expected to graduate in 2022 after finishing her write up about a stylistic analysis of millennial breakup songs. She found passion in all things oratory and public speaking from as early as 8 years old. She began with an interest in Malay poetry recitals and Arabic choral speaking, and her interest bloomed to critical public speaking and debating. Her interest had earned her and her team the Semi Finalist position during the 2016 IIUM Interschool Debating Competition, a record-breaking achievement as the first SMK to break into the semi final rounds. Ever since then, Syasya occasionally coached for Malay debating at her alma mater, while expanding her interest in a new oratory gig – emceeing. To date, Syasya is an active freelance emcee for 3 years, but with an impressive record of events as she had also hosted and moderated several international events, including those held by government organizations such as MACC and MOE. With her experience too, she actively organizes monthly presentation skills workshop ‘Upgrading the Basics’ at several local universities to help others improve their basic presentation skills. Her module has helped more than 400 university students nationwide.

Syasya believed that it was her interest at a very young age that brought her to where she is today, and she wishes to bring the same message to more young talents through MIDP as she joins them in 2022.

As a performer through and through, Azureen has spent her whole life in front of an audience. Either through her acting in musical theatre, public and choral speaking competitions, or debating tournaments, With years of experience in being an event coordinator and facilitator for team building corporations, Azureen is no stranger to presenting herself in a composed, warm manner. Currently working as an E-Commerce Manager and Sales Strategist, Azureen spends her days negotiating contracts, communicating with investors, and giving presentations on current and future campaign projects. Spends her time giving talks relating to her industry and participating in events and conferences from her management of international brands. Azureen has the sole goal of nurturing creative thinking in her students as well as inspire them to be comfortable and confident in themselves.

Povind is experienced in team management, mentoring and coaching. During his tenure as coach and Vice President of his University Debate club, Povind trained and led the debate team in both weekly training sessions and tournaments. He also helped to grow the debate presence in the Northern region of Malaysia. Some of his notable experiences are as an Open Finals adjudicator at China Pre-Nationals Debate Championship 2021, Novice Finalist at Northern Debate Open 2020, and Overall Best Speaker at Northern University Malaysia Debate Championship 2018.

Amy started debating in her first year of undergrad in Bachelor’s of International Relations in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. She believes her debating skills have helped her be one of the top students in her class. She also believes that debating is beyond competition and an essential set of soft skills that help you grow as a person.

Her experience in debating started from being the Malaysian National Novice Finalist in 2018, which was the first tournament she joined, to being crowned the Debater of The Year Award (Outside Klang Valley) in 2021. Apart from debating, Amy has also been invited to judge internationally, such as in India, Bangladesh, Khazakstan, and was awarded the Top 10 Best Judge in Japan British Parliamentary Debate Championship in 2020. She has coached debate teams from high school to varsity level.

Sharyfa fell in love with the art of debating five years ago when she began her journey. In her first year of competitive debating, she managed to bag the Novice Overall Best Speaker award at UT MARA Open 2017. Since then, she has appeared in numerous break rounds of debate tournaments, such as being a three-time semi-finalist of the Malaysian National Intervarsity Championship and a two-time grand finalist of the Borneo British Parliamentary Championship. Apart from debating, Sharyfa enjoys judging debates and has judged international competitions across Asia, including China, Bangladesh, and Singapore. She views her involvement in being a judge as an integral part in the development and growth of young and upcoming debaters. Most recently, she was awarded as the Overall Best Judge in the Malaysia National Schools Debating Championship 2021. As a coach, Sharyfa has been a part of several workshops and has found a passion for teaching the next generation of debaters. She is a firm believer that the skills that come with debating are fundamental in everyday life. Hence, she is committed to ensuring her classes will not only aid students in becoming great speakers but also great critical thinkers. She is excited to share her vast knowledge with her students in an interactive, accessible, yet fun way.

Kiki started debating in 2019 but has broken into more than 20 tournaments that are held across the world as a speaker. Asides from being crowned as the champion of Guangdong Debate Challenge and Macau Inter-Tertiary English Debating Competition in 2021, her most notable achievement is reaching the ESL Quarterfinals of the World Universities Championship in 2021, Open Semi-final of Asian British Parliamentary Debating Championship in 2021 and Northeast Asian Debate Championship in 2020. Besides that, she has been the chief adjudicator of multiple tournaments and has successfully made her way to judge the EFL Final at the United Asian Debating Championship in 2021. Her classes are designed to help you to overcome structural barriers as a non-native speaker and to inspire you to view debating in various perspectives.