DR NESADURAI KALANITHI

Malaysia

Female

66

Member of Audit Committee

Independent and Non Executive

1. Doctorate - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology [University of Reading, UK]

2. Masters - Master of Science, Food Science [University of Reading, UK]

Dr. Nesadurai is a biochemist by training, with more than 35 years of experience in the oil palm industry.
She started her career in 1984, as a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Nutrition Group in MPOB, where she studied the effects of palm oil and its phytonutrients in food, nutrition and health. She has several patents and publications to her credit and is known for her contribution to the field of research in tocotrienols and breast cancer. Between 2003 to 2004, she was a Visiting Research Scientist at the Center for Animal Biotechnology, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Dr. Nesadurai in 2008 was made the Director of Product Development and Advisory Services in MPOB. In 2013, she was appointed Minister at the Malaysian Embassy based in Brussels, Belgium and was the Regional Manager for MPOB in Europe, a position she held up till 2017.
Dr. Nesadurai was awarded the Gold Medal for excellence in research by MPOB in 2001 and won the prestigious World Intellectual Property Organizations (WIPO) Best Woman Inventor in 2006. She was a founding member of the Malaysian Chapter of the Society for Free Radical Research (SFRR) and was the Past-President for SFRR Asia.
She is also the co-founder of Climate Governance Malaysia, an affiliate of World Economic Forum

IOI Corporation Berhad - Independent Non-Executive Director