Tunku Abdul Aziz Bin Tunku Ibrahim

Malaysian

80

Director

Independent & Non Executive

1. Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring in History and Political Science from University of Tasmania.

Tunku Abdul Aziz Bin Tunku Ibrahim began his business career with Guthrie Corporation Ltd after completing his professional education in England and tertiary education at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He then moved to the Central Bank of Malaysia as Advisor. He returned to the private sector, joining Dunlop Malaysian Industries before being appointed as the Group Director of Sime Darby Limited. He left Malaysia to take up a directorship at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, returing to Malaysia on retirement in 1992. He was a member of the Council of the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers, the Malaysian National Shippers Council, the Asean Business Council, the Asean-US Business Council and the Asian-EU Business Council. He was, for two terms, the Chairman of the Asean Chambers of Commerce and Industry Working Group on Industrial Complementation that produced the Asean Motor Industry Guidelines. He also served on the Employers' Panel of the Industrial Court of Malaysia for several years. He founded the Malaysian Chapter of Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption, now known as the Malaysian Society for Transparency & Integrity of which he was the President until December 2004. Tunku Abdul Aziz Bin Tunku Ibrahim devoted his time to Transparency International on a volutary basis from 1995 - 2004 and has written and spoken widely on corruption and integrity issues both domestically and internationally. He is also a member of several anti-corruption advisory groups initiated by the World Bank and the United Nations as well as being a board member of the International Institute for Public Ethics. In February 2004 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission inquiring into police services. In February 2006, Tunku Abdul Aziz Bin Tunku Ibrahim was appointed as Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the United Nations and pioneered the establishment of the UN Ethics Office. He returned from New York on completion of his work in January 2007. He is a former columnist for the New Sunday Times and now writes an occasional column for Sin Chew Daily, the premier Chinese newspaper. He is a national vice-chairman of the Democratic Action Party of Malaysia and is one of two senators in the Malaysian Parliment nominated by Pakatan Rakyat Government of the State of Penang. On 12 August 2011, his alma mater, the University of Tasmania conferred on him the Doctor of Laws honoris causa for his fight against corruption and promoting integrity in business and government in Malaysia and overseas.