Dr. Marieta Galor-Tabasondra is a highly accomplished educator, senior financial expert, and Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with over two decades of global experience spanning higher education and corporate financial governance. She currently serves as a Lecturer in the School of Business at Bahrain Polytechnic, where she instructs senior-level courses in Financial Reporting and Taxation while steering institutional development across the Faculty Board and the Curriculum Advisory Group. Her extensive academic portfolio includes prior tenures as an Instructor and Program Manager for the Bahrain Training Institute under the Ministry of Education, and as the Accountancy Program Head at Sultan Kudarat State University in the Philippines. Dr. Tabasondra holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Southeastern Philippines and a Master of Management from the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, qualifying her as a premier authority in curriculum alignment and international accounting pedagogy. Complementing her scholarly achievements, Dr. Tabasondra possesses a formidable corporate track record executing fiscal strategy, cross-border taxation, and multi-million dollar asset management across the Middle East, Russia, and Southeast Asia. Her industry background includes managing the daily financial controls for the $22 billion Sakhalin II project in Russia, delivering system-wide internal controls as a palm oil enterprise consultant, and serving as a Senior Finance Manager supervising cross-departmental teams. An expert in IFRS, US-GAAP, and both Bahrain and UK tax structures, she has spent years optimization budgeting, business forecasting, and corporate reporting. Her leadership standing is further solidified by her elite professional service, notably serving as the past Chapter President of the Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) in both Bahrain and Sultan Kudarat.