Datuk Yaacob Bin Wan Ibrahim

Malaysian

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Non Active

Masters of Education (Administration, Planning , and Social Policy) from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1990. Bachelor of Arts (Economic and Malay Studies) from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 1971. Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 1979. Diploma in Education from University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 1972

Datuk Yaacob Bin Wan Ibrahim had gained vast experiences in the public sector through serving in rural and urban schools, in the teachers’ training colleges, in the various departments and divisions of the Ministry of Education of Malaysia (MOE), and in the state education department. Assuming strategic leadership roles in various departments and divisions of the Ministry of Education, he was a Deputy Director of School(Operation)Division, Director for the Education Technology Division, Deputy Director-General of Private Education Department of the MOE, and the Director of the Education Department of Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur. During the period from 1995 to 1998, he served in Australia as a Director of Malaysian Students Department cum Senior Consul at the Malaysian Consulate in Sydney. In 2007 he was appointed as an education fellow at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS Malaysia). He had had experiences as education advisers to a few private university colleges and a vocational skills training centre.