Dr. Gabriel Ling Hoh Teck is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and a core member of the UTM Low Carbon Asia Research Centre. He earned his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from UTM. His research spans institutional and ecological economics, social–ecological systems (SES), collective action, behavioral economics in real estate, and climate change. Dr. Ling has published over 90 scholarly works, with key contributions on low-cost housing governance in Malaysia, gated community management in China, and public participation in smart cities. He applies Ostrom’s SES and IAD frameworks in large-scale empirical studies and serves as principal investigator for a nationally funded project on multi-level SES governance in high-rise communities. He has played an active role in policy development, contributing to the Low Carbon Society Blueprints for Johor Bahru, Kuala Lumpur, and Pengerang. In addition to his academic roles, Dr. Ling is Section Editor of the International Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability, Review Editor for Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, a member of the editorial board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature), and an academic editor for PLOS One, affirming his position as a leading scholar in sustainable urban governance and institutional planning in Southeast Asia.

He joined the editorial board of Transnational Supply Chain Research on September 6, 2025, as an editorial member.