Ramon Navaratnam Biography - Koon Yew Yin

Koon Yew Yin

Publish date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021, 11:44 AM

Since I have cashed out of the stock market, I have so much of free time to do what I like. After I read Ramond’s comment to support my work in my KYY chat group, I have decided to write this useful article. Ramon is one of my old friends still alive. Most of my contemporise have passed away. I am still wondering how he could accomplish so much within his life time.

I hope my readers will circulate this article so that more people can follow his footsteps to make Malaysia a Developed Nation.

Ramon Navaratnam (born January 1935) is a Malaysian economist. He is the former Secretary-General of the Malaysian Ministry of Transport, and is currently a corporate advisor to the Sunway Group. He is of Sri Lankan Tamil descent.

Navaratnam was a member of the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM), the National Economic Action Council (NEAC) and the former president of Transparency International Malaysia. He is currently the Director of the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) and the Chairman of the Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS).

He completed his secondary studies at Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, and won a partial scholarship to the University of Malaya in Singapore, where he pursued a degree in Economics in 1959.

After graduation, he began working as Assistant Secretary in the Health and Social Welfare Ministry.

In 1969, he went on to earn a master's degree in Public Administration at Harvard University, Massachusetts, on a full university scholarship.

He was at the time employed in the Economic Division of the Treasury and, upon returning, re-joined it. Shortly after, he became its deputy head.

In 1971 and 1972, he was selected to represent Malaysia as alternate executive director in the World Bank in Washington DC. His post required him to travel to South-East Asian countries, where he helped to brief officials on developments in World Bank policies and the progress of their applications for loans.

Navaratnam became Deputy Secretary-General of the Ministry of Finance in 1979.

In 1985 he became the first government representative on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (now Bursa Malaysia) Executive Committee. He became Secretary-General of the Transport Ministry in 1986.

In 1989 he became a member of the National Development Planning Committee, after which he left government service to join Bank Buruh (M) Bhd as executive director and chief executive officer.

From 1994 - 1995 he was executive vice-chairman of the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute in Kuala Lumpur. At this time, he was also appointed group corporate adviser to the Sunway Group, a post he still holds.

In 1996 he was appointed executive director of Sunway College, and from 1997 - 1998 he was a member of the Special Education Committee in the Ministry of Education. From 1999-2000 he was a member of the National Economic Consultative Council. In 2000 he was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Oxford Brookes University, Britain. He joined the National Unity Advisory Panel, of which he is still a member.

In 2002 he joined the National Economic Action Council, and in 2004 became a member of the National Higher Education Council. In 2007 he was appointed as an advisor to Enterprise Asia, an NGO based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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sohaiisacompliment

The only "director" in sunway group that is down to earth and would talk to ordinary employees. Others would only talk to you if there is "business matter" to be resolved.

2021-07-15 17:53

Sslee

I hope my readers will circulate this article so that more people can follow his footsteps to make Malaysia a Developed Nation

Luckily he was born in 1935. Do you think nowadays anyone of his background can raise to the top in government service?

2021-07-15 18:00

stockraider

The non have to forget about Govt service loh!

2021-07-15 18:10

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