TAN SRI ABD RAHMAN BIN MAMAT

Malaysia

Male

70

Chairman

Tan Sri Abd Rahman graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from University of Malaya and has an Advanced Management Programme qualification from Harvard Business School, Boston, the United States of America.

He was previously Secretary-General of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), a position which he served from September 2006 until his retirement in December 2010. Tan Sri Abd Rahman joined MITI as an Assistant Director on 18 April 1975 and served in various capacities in the ministry for 35 years which included Deputy Trade Commissioner, Malaysian Trade Office, New York, the United States of America; Director of Trade, Malaysian Trade Centre, Taipei, Taiwan; Economic Counsellor/Trade Commissioner and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission (ESCAP), Malaysian Trade Office, Bangkok, Thailand; Special Assistant to Minister of International Trade and Industry, Tan Sri Rafidah binti Abdul Aziz; Director, Export Promotion Bureau, Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE); Director of Industries; Senior Director, Policy and Industry Services Division; and Deputy Secretary-General (Industry). During his tenure in MITI, he also served as MITI’s representative on the board of various companies and corporations including Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA), MATRADE, Johor Corporation, Regional Economic Development Authority (RECODA), Sarawak and Small and Medium Corporation Malaysia (SME CORP). Tan Sri Abd Rahman has represented Malaysia in numerous international meetings, negotiations, conferences and symposiums and has also contributed towards formulating, implementing and monitoring policies and programmes on international trade and industrial growth as well as entrepreneurship development. He was an honorary member of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations and a Malaysian Leader for the High Level Task Force on ASEAN Economic Integration

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