DATO' DZULKIFLI BIN ABD WAHAB

Malaysia

Male

67

Chairman

1. Degree - Geography [University of Malaya, Malaysia]
B.A. (Hons)

2. Others - Strategy and Innovation [Said Business School, Oxford University, United Kingdom]
Postgraduate Diploma

3. Others - High Performance Boards [International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland]

4. Others - Advanced Management Programme (AMP) [INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France]

5. Others - Strategic Leadership Programme (SLP) [Said Business School, Oxford University, United Kingdom]

6. Others - Industrial Management (Look East Policy) [JICA/JIM, Tokyo, Japan]

Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Wahab (Dato' Dzulkifli) has 35 years of experience in the plantation field, where he began his career with Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) in 1977. He was appointed as the Director General (DG) of FELDA in 2009 where he held the position for three years until 2012. During his tenure as the DG of FELDA, Dato' Dzulkifli oversaw over 450,000 hectares of plantation consisting of palm oil and rubber and executed a myriad of action plans to continuously drive the socio-economic values of 112,635 settlers and their families. He was also involved in top-level decision-making on investing FELDA's funds into its subsidiaries, joint ventures and associate companies.
Dato' Dzulkifli was later appointed as an agricultural attaché at the Embassy of Malaysia in Rome, Italy. Whilst being the representative for Malaysia, he had represented Malaysia in Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Food Programme and International Finance Agricultural Development, United Nations.
He was also appointed as a Deputy Chairman for the FAO Asia Group in 2014 and as a Committee Member on Commodity Problems in FAO in 2015.