B.A (Hons) Second Class Upper in Economics, University of Malaya M.A. Economics, University of Southern California
Working Experience
Started his career by joining the Administrative and Diplomatic Service of the Government of Malaysia in April 1971, and was appointed as Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Transport. After four years at the Ministry of Transport he was awarded a scholarship to pursue graduate studies in United States, in 1975. He returned to Malaysia in 1977 and was posted as Director of Air Transport in Department of Civil Aviation, and in 1983, promoted to the post of Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation. When the airport was corporatised in November 1992, he opted to join Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB) as Executive Director until he retired in April 2003. As Executive Director, he was responsible for the overall management and operation of the 37 airports managed by MAHB including the K.L International Airport. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, the holding company, and sat on the board of nine other subsidiary companies. He was Chairman of two main subsidiary companies of MAHB namely, Malaysia Airports (Sepang) Sdn Bhd., the company that manages KLIA, and Malaysia Airports Sdn Bhd., the Company that manages all the 36 airports other than KLIA. He was also Chairman of Malaysia Airports Management and Technical Services, another subsidiary company, with its core business focussed on the operations and maintenance of KLIA. At the international level, he was elected to the Board of the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia Pacific Region for two terms of three years each. He was also a member of the World Governing Board of ACI, the organization representing all the airports of the world.
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