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DATO’ AINUDDIN NOORDIN 
Dato’ Ainuddin Noordin has been in business in Vietnam since 1990. He
was the first Chief Corporate Representative for Renong Group from 1991
to 1992, after which he founded the Vinabumi group of companies, which
was involved in programme acquisition and commercial airtime management
for Vietnam Television. Vinabumi was also a pioneer in events
management and promotion in Vietnam. Ainuddin has
advised numerous international companies with regard to business in
Vietnam, and is currently the Senior Advisor to MEASAT, Chief Corporate
Representative for SCOMI Group of Companies, and Senior Advisor to
Bursa Malaysia – all in respect of Vietnam. He
was appointed Special Advisor to the Vietnam Investment Forum 2006 by
the Government of Vietnam, and his services towards furthering the
bilateral relations between Vietnam and Malaysia were recognised when
he was awarded the highest order of merit by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Vietnam, in 2006 – the first ASEAN national, and only the 8th
foreign national to receive this award. YBHG DATO’ ISKANDAR MIZAL BIN MAHMOOD 
YBhg
Dato’ Iskandar Mizal bin Mahmood, a Malaysian, aged 41, was appointed
to the Board on 13 May 2005. Prior to his appointment at BiotechCorp,
he was the Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysian Technology
Development Corporation (MTDC) since October 2003. From
1999 to 2003, he was the General Manager of Malaysia Airports Berhad
responsible for strategic planning, investor relations business
development, corporate finance and finance. He started his career with
Arthur Andersen & Co in 1989 and had served in several financial
institutions including Bumiputera International Merchant Bankers Berhad
and Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad Group. A
graduate from Boston University, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Business Administration (Accountancy), YBhg Dato’
Iskandar brings to BiotechCorp his expertise in investment strategic
planning, finance, corporate financing and research. TAN SRI DATO’ SERI MOHAMED JAWHAR 
Tan
Sri Dato’ Seri Mohamed Jawhar, Chairman and CEO of ISIS Malaysia, has
served the government in various capacities both at home and abroad. He
joined ISIS in 1990 as Deputy Director General and rose to be Chairman
and CEO in January 206. Positions he has held
included Director-General, Department of National Unity;
Under-Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs; Director (Analysis) Research
Division, Prime Minister’s Department; and Principal Assistant
Secretary, National Security Council. He has
been actively involved in the nation’s move in the use of IT. Tan Sri
Dato’ Seri Jawhar served as a member of Penang Knowledge Economy
Information Communications Technology Council (K-ICT Council) since its
inception. He was heavily involved in the formulation of the K-ICT
Blueprint in support of the government’s goal of making Penang a fully
developed state by 2010.
During his distinguished service
with the government he has served as Counselor in the Malaysian
Embassies in Indonesia and Thailand. Dato Seri Jawahar is also very
active on the regional front. Presently he is Co-Chair, Council for
Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) for a period of two
years; Chair, ASEAN-ISIS (2007-2008); and Expert and Eminent Person,
for the purposes of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Register. TAN SRI DATO’ MOHD. RAMLI BIN KUSHAIRI 
Tan
Sri Dato’ Mohd. Ramli Bin Kushairi, is the President of Eisenhower
Fellows Association Malaysia. He has served both the public and
private sector in various companies. Currently he
is the Chairman of South Malaysia Industries Berhad, and a Director of
Gamuda Berhad, and Masscorp Berhad. His private businesses
include property development through Primamuda Holdings Sdn. Bhd.
(Jalan Travers Redevelopment), and quality and quantity control
services to oil and gas industry through Petrotechnical Inspection Sdn.
Bhd., an affiliate of the SGS Group of Companies based in Geneva. He
graduated from the Hull University, United Kingdom, with an Honours
Degree in Social Science, and did his post-graduate studies at the
King’s College, University of London. He is also
a member of the Board of the Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC),
the National Standards & Accreditation Council of Malaysia and
Chairman of the National Standards Committee of the Council. PROFESSOR DR KHAW LAKE TEE 
Professor
Dr Khaw Lake Tee, is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development) of the
oldest University in the country, University of Malaya. Prof Khaw
joined the University of Malaya in 1982 as a lecturer. She has
served in various capacities since then including the Dean of the Law
Faculty. Prof Khaw had her early education in
Kedah and graduated from University of Malaya with an LLB degree in
1978. She then pursued her postgraduate education in Australia and the
London School of Economics. Besides her academic experience, Professor Khaw has also served in various government committees. Prof Khaw is the author of a major text as copyright law and land law. MR. RONNIE C. CHAN 
Mr.
Ronnie C. Chan is the Chairman of Hang Lung Group Limited and its
subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited. Both are publicly listed
companies in Hong Kong, dealing in real estate and property investment,
development and management. Hang Lung has been a leader in Hong Kong's
property market for over forty years, and has been expanding into
mainland China for over a decade. Mr. Chan also
co-founded the privately held Morningside group which, in the past two
decades, has owned and managed businesses in manufacturing, public
transport operations, outdoor advertising, media, healthcare, online
game operators, high-tech and biotech investments, developmental
capital investments and other venture capital investments around the
world. In addition, Mr. Chan is actively
involved with many non-profits, philanthropic endeavors, and
educational organizations. He is Chairman of the Executive Committees
of the One Country Two Systems Research Institute and of the Better
Hong Kong Foundation. He founded and chairs the China Heritage Fund,
and is an Advisor to the China Development Research Foundation of
China's State Council. Internationally, Mr. Chan is a Vice Chairman of
the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, and a member of
the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on United
States-China Relations, and the Committee of 100. He is the Founding
Chairman and Chairman Emeritus of the Asia Business Council, a former
Chairman of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council, and a former
member of the governing board of the World Economic Forum. He serves or
has served on the governing or advisory bodies of several think tanks
and universities, including China Foreign Affairs University, the
University of Southern California, East-West Center, Pacific Council on
International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, and The Maureen and Mike
Mansfield Foundation.
OMAR MUSTAPHA
Omar
is Managing Partner of Ethos & Company, a leading boutique
management consulting firm in Malaysia. Founded in 2002 by Omar and
former colleagues from McKinsey & Company, Ethos has built a
reputation with clients for delivering impact by combining global ideas
and local insights of issues of corporate strategy, performance
management and operations excellence. In 2007, Omar co-founded Ethos
Capital, Malaysia's first non-institutional private equity fund focused
on growing private companies with proven management teams. He was
previously Special Assistant for Economic Affairs to the Malaysian
Deputy Prime Minister, a McKinsey consultant and Corporate Planning
manager with Petronas. Omar is a 2007 WEF Young Global Leader, a 2008
Eisenhower Fellow and a member of Malaysia’s National Economic Council
chaired by the Prime Minister. He read PPE at Oxford and has attended
advanced studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. TAN SRI SITI NORMA YAAKOB
Tan
Sri Siti Norma Yaakob was the Chief Judge of Malaya, the first woman to
hold this high post in the Malaysian Judiciary. Siti Norma had
her early education in Seremban, Malaysia, before pursuing her law
studies in London.
Since returning to Malaysia with a
Barrister-at-Law degree Siti Norma has served in various
capacities. She was appointed as a Senior Assistant Registrar,
High Court, Kuala Lumpur in 1963 and moved up the ladder in the
judiciary to hold the third highest position in the profession - as the
Chief Judge of Malaya. On reaching retirement age, her services
were extended and when she left the service in 2007 she was the Federal
Court Judge and Chief Judge of Malaya.
Not one to sit back and
remain idle, Siti Norma has been active in various organisations - not
just in the legal arena but also in social and educational
fields. Siti Norma has represented the country in a number of
international organisations including Asean and the Commonwealth.
Currently her services are highly sought after by various organisations
both at home and abroad. She has also been appointed a Judge of
the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts.
For her
dedication and service to the nation, she has been conferred various
honours including the Panglima Setia Mahkota (PSM) which carries the
title "Tan Sri" by the Yang di Pertuan Agong (His Majesty the King of
Malaysia).
She is married to Dato' Seri Meor Ayob bin Mior
Shaffie, a mining consultant, and blessed with three children and seven
grandchildren. DATO' JOHAN RASLAN
Johan
became the Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia in
2005. Responsible for the firm's interest in the external market, Johan
is a speaker in the areas of corporate governance, corporate reporting
and corporate responsibility in Malaysia and internationally. Johan is
the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Foundation, an appointment by
the Finance Minister of Malaysia, and is Chairman of the Institute of
Corporate Responsibility, Malaysia, a network of companies committed to
advancing responsible business practices. Johan is an Adjunct Professor
of University Malaya, the country's oldest university, and a member of
the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. MR. DAVID LIM
Mr David Lim is a Director of Ascendas India Trust, which invests in services oriented real estate in India.
Mr
Lim has had extensive business and leadership experience in both the
public and private sector in Singapore and overseas over 30 years. His
past roles include CEO of Neptune Orient Lines, a global top 10
container shipping company, CEO of world leading port operator, the
Port of Singapore Authority; CEO of the China-Singapore Suzhou
Industrial Park based in Shanghai, leading an international consortium;
and CEO of Jurong Town Corporation, which develops industrial
facilities in Singapore and invests throughout the region. Mr Lim
participated in politics from 1997 to 2006, and has served as
Singapore's Minister of State for Defence, Chairman of the National
Youth Council, Minister of State for Information and the Arts and, most
latterly, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the
Arts. Mr Lim is an Eisenhower Fellow. He is married with 3
children. RALPH L. "SKIP" BOYCE
Ralph
"Skip" Boyce was named vice president of Boeing International and
president of Boeing Southeast Asia in February 2008. He is responsible
for strengthening the company’s presence across the region and
supporting Boeing growth and productivity opportunities. He reports to
Shep Hill, president, Boeing International.
Boyce was a career
member of the United States Senior Foreign Service. He served as the
United States ambassador to Thailand from January 2005 to December
2007. Before that assignment, Boyce served as ambassador to Indonesia
from October 2001 to October 2004. Prior to that, he was deputy
assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs from
August 1998 to July 2001. His area of responsibility included Southeast
Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Boyce
entered the Foreign Service in 1976 and was assigned to Tehran as staff
assistant to the ambassador in September 1977. In September 1979, he
was posted as commercial attaché in Tunis. In September 1981, he was
assigned to Islamabad as financial economist.
From July 1984 to
August 1988, Boyce served in the State Department, first as special
assistant and then as advisor to the deputy secretary of state,
responsible for the foreign affairs budget. In August 1988, he was
assigned to Bangkok, Thailand, as political counselor, where he served
until August 1992, when he was transferred to Singapore as deputy chief
of Mission. From June 1993 until September 1994, Mr. Boyce was charge
d'affaires, a.i., in Singapore during the absence of an ambassador. In
October 1994, he returned to Bangkok as deputy chief of Mission, where
he served until August 1998.
Boyce was born February 1, 1952, in
Washington, D.C. He obtained a bachelor of arts from George Washington
University in 1974 and a master of public affairs from Princeton
University in 1976. He speaks Persian, French and Thai. SANJEEV SANYAL
Sanjeev
Sanyal is currently Chief Economist for the region at Deutsche Bank as
well as Adjunct Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at the
National University of Singapore. He has been covering Asia's rapidly
growing economies since the mid-nineties and his views are widely
discussed in financial markets, the international media and by
policy-makers. He has a number of other attachments including
being Member of the Steering Committee of Urban Age at London School of
Economics, Founder and Director of the Green Accounting for Indian
States Project, Founder and Steering Committee Member of the Urban
Habitats Forum, India and Advisor to Aavishkaar Micro-Venture Capital
Fund.
Sanjeev has a BA (Honours) in Economics from Delhi
University and two Masters' degrees from Oxford University where he was
a Rhodes Scholar. He was awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2007 for
his work on the economics of urban systems. His book "The Indian
Renaissance: India's Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline" was
published in September 2008 by Penguin and World Scientific. TAN SRI DATO' AZMAN HJ. MOKHTAR
Tan
Sri Dato' Azman is the Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad
(Khazanah), the strategic investment arm of the Government of Malaysia.
Prior to his appointment in June 2004, he was the Managing Director and
co-founder of BinaFikir Sdn Bhd, a financial consultancy, the Director,
Head of Country Research, Salomon Smith Barney Malaysia and the
Director, Head of Research, Union Bank of Switzerland in Malaysia.
Before that, he held various positions in the then National Electricity
Board (LLN) and Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB).
Tan Sri Dato'
Azman is the Chairman of Iskandar Investment Berhad, TM International
Berhad and Valuecap Sdn Bhd and holds various board memberships
including UEM Berhad and Iskandar Regional Development Authority
(IRDA). He serves on various public service bodies including the
Advisory Board for Cluster of Excellence Schools, the Board of
Governors of the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, the Malaysian Directors
Academy, Yayasan Khazanah and the Executive Committee of Malaysia
International Islamic Financial Centre (MIFC). He is also a member of
the Kuala Lumpur Business Club, the Asia Business Council and the
INSEAD East Asia Council.
He obtained his M.Phil in
Development Studies from Darwin College, Cambridge University, is a
Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and
a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He also holds a postgraduate
diploma in Islamic Studies from the International Islamic University,
Malaysia. JOHN STERN WOLF
John
S. Wolf assumed the presidency of Eisenhower Fellowships on August 16,
2004. Eisenhower Fellowships fosters international understanding
and cooperation by promoting exchanges of ideas and perspectives among
emerging leaders throughout the world. It is a non-partisan, non-profit
organization created in 1953 to honor President Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
Previously, Mr. Wolf served with the
Department of State, entering as a Foreign Service Officer in
1970. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation
on October 2, 2001. Concurrently, in June 2003, President Bush
appointed him as Chief, U.S. Coordination and Monitoring Mission for
the Middle East peace process. Prior to these appointments, Mr.
Wolf served from 1999-2000 as Special Adviser to the President and
Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy.
Mr.
Wolf's early assignments were in Australia, Vietnam, Greece, and
Pakistan, as well as in Washington. He was Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
from 1989-1992. He served as Ambassador to Malaysia from
1992-1995. He was designated as APEC Coordinator in January,
1996, and confirmed as Ambassador to APEC in February, 1997.
Mr.
Wolf graduated from Dartmouth College (B.A. 1970) and was a Mid-career
Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
(1978-79). Mr. Wolf was a graduate of Chestnut Hill Academy
(1966).
Mr. Wolf won the President's Meritorious Service Award
in 1992 and 2000, the State Department's Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Award for
Initiative and Success in Trade Development in 1993 and, in 2004, the
Secretary of State's Award for Distinguished Service, the Department's
highest award. In 1996, he received the annual APCAC Award from
the Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers of Commerce. He was
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married and has two
children.
TUN MUSA HITAM
Tun
Musa Hitam, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, has served in
various capacities both in Malaysia and abroad. He was active in UMNO
politics from an early age and had served as Minister of Education,
Minister of Primary Industries and Minister of Education before being
appointed Deputy Prime Minister in 1981, by the then Prime Minister Tun
Dr Mahathir Mohamad, but resigned from the post in 1986.
He
continues to command respect and the demand for his expertise and
knowledge from Malaysians and those abroad continues unabated. Tun Musa
is currently Chairman of the world's largest plantation conglomerate,
Sime Darby, and at the same time continues to serve on a number of
boards and organizations.
Tun Musa has held various posts at the
international level. These include Chairman of the Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association, member of the Board of UNESCO, Leader of the
Commonwealth Observer delegation to the Malawi general elections. He
was elected Chairman of the 52nd Session of the UN Commission on Human
Rights and between 1990-1991 was Malaysia's Special Envoy to the UN.
Currently he is also Chairman of the Eminent Persons Group for Asean.
Born
in Johor Bahru, he obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University
of Malaya and his Master's degree from the University of Sussex. Tun
Musa has been awarded with various honours, including honorary
Doctorate from the University of Sussex.
IAN C. BUCHANAN
Ian
Buchanan has a wealth of expertise with 36 years experience throughout
South East Asia and Australasia working as CEO, Independent Director
and/or Strategic Advisor at the most senior levels of business and
government. He has worked on the restructuring, turnaround and
performance improvement of major Government Linked and private
corporate groups and agencies.
He currently is with Booze &
Company, formerly Booze Allen Hamilton. At the same time he is also,
among others, the Asian Advisor to Rio Tinto; IAG; CHAMP Private
Equity; Chairman of ANU Crawford School of Government Advisory Council
and Director of The Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
His education
spans varied disciplines, from Chemistry to economics. He has a MA
(Oxon) in Chemistry/Qantum Chemistry, MBA (Wharton) and Advanced
Studies in Development Economics at Kiel Institute of World Economics
and in Leadership at Aspen Institute. DATUK DR ZAINAL AZNAM YUSOF
Datuk
Dr Zainal Aznam, formerly the Deputy Director General of the Institute
of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), had served as Adviser in
Economics at Bank Negara, Malaysia's Central Bank. As Adviser he was
responsible for the Balance of Payments Department and Corporate
Affairs Department.
The greater part of his working career,
almost 20 years, was spent in the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in the
Prime Minister's Department. The EPU is responsible for the formulation
of the Malaysian five-year and long term development plans.
During his time at the EPU he worked in a wide range of economic areas
including industry, the New Economic Policy, macroeconomics, foreign
investment, privatisation and infrastructure.
He has been
engaged as a consultant to the Malaysian government, UNIDO,
International Labour Office, the World Bank, the Asian Development
Bank, ASEAN Secretariat, UNDP, UNCTAD and the Department of
International Development (DFID)-Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
UK. He has also served as Member of the Advisory Board of the Asian
Economic Panel, Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard
University, the Global Security Research Centre at Keio University and
Korea Institute for International Economic policy.
Dr Zainal
holds a B.Sc (Economics) from Queen's University, Belfast and a M.A.
(Development Economics) from the University of Leicester and a D.Phil
(Economics) from University of Oxford, United Kingdom. DATO' SERI TONY FERNANDES
Datuk
Tony Fernandes is synonymous with a "can do attitude". He has changed
the attitude of Malaysians to flying with his tag line of "Now Everyone
Can Fly" for his no-frills budget carrier - Air Asia.
As Group
Chief Executive of Air Asia Bhd, Tony has extended his success formula
for the no-frills airline to venture abroad. In addition to flying to
destinations that were not served by the other more established
airlines in the region, Tony has taken his airline to Australia and to
London soon. The no frills concept has also been extended to other
products including hotels - Tune Hotels.
He began his career in
the music industry in the UK with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group.
He also worked with Warner Music International in London before
returning home to head Warner Music Malaysia and was Vice President of
ASEAN Warner Music.
Tony obtained his education in France and the United Kingdom. PROF. DR. NILUFER NARLI
Prof
Dr Nilufer Narli is highly qualified with a long list of degrees
including in education, sociology, Philosophy of Science and philosophy
and a PhD in Social Sciences with a major in Political Sociology from
the School of Comparative Social Sciences, University Sains Malaysia.
An
Eisenhower Fellow from Turkey in 1993 Prof Narli is currently a Full
professor of Political Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at
Bahcesehir University. She founded the Sociology department at the
University which she now chairs and was also the founding Dean to the
faculty of Communication at Kadir Has University. She was visiting
scholar at Maryland University during the summer of 2007.
Currently,
Narli is studying the social impact of computer learning on the young
people, a project sponsored by Microsoft and UNDP. Narli's topics of
research and teaching interest include: Islamist Movements, Migration,
Civil-military Relations, Conflict and Development in the Middle East
and Media and Conflict. Her current research topics are
"Turkish Cinema and Urbanization," "Illegal Human Mobility in the
Balkans," and "The EU Harmonization Reforms, Military and Good
Governance in Turkey" and Women's Rights. DATO' KOK WEE KIAT
Dato'
Kok Wee Kiat is passionate about the environment. Has been involved in
activities and issues relating to environmental protection even before
it became fashionable to be associated with it. His work in this
area spans not only at home but across the region and in international
associations and organizations.
The number of official positions
he has held in organizations relating to the environment are testimony
of his interest and passion. These include -- President of the Business
Council for Sustainable Development Malaysia; Chairman of the
Organising Committee, Prime Minister's Hibiscus and Trustee of the
Environmental Management & Research Association of Malaysia
(ENSEARCH).
On the international front he is on the Advisory
Board of the Asia Pacific Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption &
Production. The UNDP recognized his work and he received the
Development & Environment Award in 2001.
Dato' Kok has also
served in the government. He was the Deputy Minister of International
Trade and Industry from 1986 to 1990. A lawyer by training, he obtained
his early education in the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur. DR MARI PANGESTU
Dr
Mari Pangestu is currently Indonesia's Minister of Trade of Indonesia.
An economist by training she obtained her Bachelors and Masters in
Economics from the Australian National University and a PhD in
Economics from the University of California, Davis.
Before
being appointed as the Trade Minister by President Susilo Bambang, Mari
has done a variety of jobs including teaching, research and headed the
Economics Department of the premier think tank in Indonesia - the
Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
She has also
done consultancy work with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the
International Finance Corporation. In addition she has also served as
the coordinator of the Task Force on Poverty and Development and the UN
Millennium Project. Mari has received several awards and honours.
She went on her Eishenhower Fellowship in 1990. JERRY NG
Jerry
Ng, 43, serves as the president director of Bank Tabungan Pensiunan
Nasional (Indonesia), majority-owned by the private equity firm TPG
Capital (USA).
Jerry has more than 20 years of experience in
the financial services industry. He started his career with the
multinational Citibank and then worked with several leading private
Indonesian commercial banks as deputy president director before he
joined TPG Capital as the Head of Indonesia. During the Asian financial
crisis, he was tapped to serve the government as deputy chairman of the
Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency.
Jerry graduated from the
University of Washington (Seattle) and attended various executive
development programs at the Stanford Business School and the Harvard
Business School. He is currently the President of the Eisenhower
Fellowships Association of Indonesia.
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