Datuk Dr Abdullah Bin Abdul Rahman

Malaysian

Male

66

DATO

Chairman

1. BA (Hons) University of Malaya degree in 1968 2. Master and Ph.D. in Public Administration, in 1976 and 1979 respectively from the University of Southern California 3. Certificate in Methodology of Training, University of Manchester (U.K.) in 1972 4. Certificate in Advanced Management, INSEAD, Fountainebleau , France in 1993

After graduation in 1968, he had joined the State Secretariat, Negeri Sembilan as the Assistant State Secretary, and was there until 1971 when he joined INTAN (the National Institute of Public Administration Malaysia) as a lecturer in Management Science. By the time he left INTAN in 1985, he was already the Deputy Director (Academic). His next position was as Director of the Special Task Force on Productivity with the Prime Minister's Department, and remained with the Prime Minister's Department until 1996, by which time he was already serving as the Director General of MAMPU (the Malaysian Administrative, Modernistion and Planning Unit). Upon leaving the Prime Minister's Department, he was with the Ministry of Health for a brief stint before joining the Government as Special Assistant to the Ketua Setiausaha Malaysia, where he served from 1998 to July of 2000, whereupon he retired upon reaching the retirement age of 55 years. From July 2000 to July 2001, he was also Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya.

1. Tracoma Holdings Berhad