Professor Dr. Noor Ismawati Jaafar is a Professor at Faculty of Business and Economics, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She obtained her Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) qualification from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She holds a professional qualification as Certified Financial Accountant (CFiA) from Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA). She is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

She teaches Accounting Information Systems (AIS) for undergraduate level and Management Information Systems (MIS) for postgraduate level. She has published in many refereed journals such as Government Information Quarterly, Computer in Human Behavior, Behavior and Information Technology, Industrial Data and Management Systems, Telematics and Informatics, International Journal of Mobile Communication and Internet Research. Her research areas are IT management, IT governance and human computer interactions. She is currently involved in researches on social media governance effect on employee, Internet addiction, IT occupational culture and national consumer confidence index.

She has been invited as a visiting professor, guest lecturer, keynote speaker and presenter for symposiums and conferences held in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and United Kingdom. She has also been appointed as mentor for the APRU Asia-Pacific Women in Leadership Mentoring Program (APWiL) representing Universiti Malaya. She aspires to achieve higher goals in her academic career in the university while embracing a more balanced lifestyle including making meaningful knowledge contribution to the society. She hopes to profess her views on societal impact of technologies in her quest of becoming a public intellectual.