TAN SRI DATO' SERI DR SULAIMAN MAHBOB

Malaysia

Male

70

Chairman

Tan Sri Dr Sulaiman Mahbob graduated with a Degree in Economics at the University of Malaya in 1971. He then obtained his Masters in Science from University of London in 1977 and Ph.D at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, New York in 1986. He also attended a course on World Currency reform at Harvard University in 1999. He was conferred Honorary Doctorate in Economic Management by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in October 2013.

Tan Sri Dr Sulaiman served the Government sector for over 38 years in various capacities including holding the position of the Director-General of the Economic Planning Unit, Prime Ministers Department, Secretary-General of the then Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, and Under Secretary (Economics) of the Ministry of Finance.
He served as Head of the Secretariat of the National Economic Action Council (NEAC) during the financial crisis in 1997/1998, when Malaysia implemented the capital control policy. He was then seconded to the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) from 1995-1997 as its Executive Director. He also served at the Institute of Integrity Malaysia (IIM) as its first founding President from 2004 until 2005, where he established several work programmes to promote a culture of ethics and integrity within the public sector and also in the private sector in line with the Governments National Integrity Plan.
Tan Sri Dr Sulaiman was previously Chairman of the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) and the Companies Commission of Malaysia. He was also a Board member of Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS), Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA), Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad, Malaysia Insurance Deposit Corporation (PIDM) and the then Multimedia and Communications Commission.
He is currently the Chairman of MIER and Minority Shareholder Watchdog Group (MSWG). He is also the Deputy Chairman of the Malaysian Economic Association (MEA) and a Board member of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS).
He is an Adjunct Professor (Economics) at the UM and Universiti Tun Abdul Razak.

Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad and Group.