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Chairman, effective 9 January 2010 Chairman and CEO from 2006 - 8 January 2010 
Tan Sri Mohamed Jawhar served with the government before he joined ISIS Malaysia as Deputy Director-General in May 1990. He was appointed Director-General in March 1997 and was subsequently appointed Chairman and CEO of ISIS Malaysia on 9 January, 2006. He was appointed Chairman ISIS Malaysia on 9 January 2010. Tan Sri Jawhar is also Non-Executive Chairman, New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Bhd; Member, Advisory Board, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission; Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR); Board Member, Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS); Chairman, Malaysian National Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP); Member, International Advisory Board, East West Center, U.S.A; and Member of Securities Commission Malaysia. He is also Expert and Eminent Person, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Register. He was also Co-Chair, Network of East Asia Think-tanks (NEAT) 2005-2006; Chairman, Malaysian National Committee, Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) 2006-2010; and Co-Chair, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) 2007-2009. Before joining ISIS, his positions in government 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 also served as Counselor in the Malaysian Embassies in Indonesia and Thailand. Chairman and CEO from 1997-2005
He was also Chairman of the Malaysia National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (MANCPEC), Chairman of Monash University Malaysia and Chairman of Noordin Sopiee & Associates. He was a Leader Writer, The New Straits Times Press (1972); Group Managing Editor, The New Straits Times Press (1976); and Group Editor, The New Straits Times Press and also Chief Executive, New Fleetprint Press, London (1981). He was former Co-Chair of CSCAP (the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific), the Chairman of Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), 1992-1994, Malaysia's Representative to the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Chairman of the Commonwealth Inter-Governmental Group on the Emergence of a Global Humanitarian Order (1995), and Convenor of the Commission for a New Asia. He was a Member of the crisis-management Executive Committee of the National Economic Action Council (NEAC) chaired by the Malaysian Prime Minister; the Board of Directors of Malaysia's Central Bank and the ASEM (Asia Europe) Task Force on Trade, Investment and Finance. He was also Chairman of PCA Hard.Com, one of the world's largest hard disk component manufacturers. He also served on the Boards of several companies including Reliance Pacific Berhad; Kulim (Malaysia) Berhad; Sunway Holdings Incorporated Berhad; YTL Power International Berhad; YTL Land and Development Berhad; and YTL e-Solutions Bhd. He was a Member of the Emerging Markets Eminent Person's Group on Reform of the International Financial Architecture and the National Information Technology Council. He was one of the 100 members of the Club of Rome. He was also a columnist for The Edge (Malaysia), Yomiuri Shimbun and Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan). He graduated with a B.Sc. (Econs) (First Class) and a Ph.D from the London School of Economics and was the author of several books on economics, politics and strategic planning. He passed away in December 2005.
Chairman from 1990-1997
He started his career as a Malaysian diplomat in 1957. He has served as the Malaysian Ambassador to Indonesia (1972-1977), the USSR (1977 – 1980) and as the Malaysian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York (1980 – March 1984) before being appointed Secretary-General of the Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in April, 1984. He retired from the Malaysian Foreign Service in March 1988. He currently also serves as Chairman of Perwaja Terengganu Sdn Bhd and Perwaja Steel Sdn Bhd. He has been the Chairman of Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad since July, 1994. He has received several international awards including Second Class Order of the Sacred Treasure, Japan (1964), Order of Maginoo, Philippines (1968), Bintang Djasa Utama, Indonesia (1977), Officer de 1”Order National, Mali (1985), Grand Cross Class II, Federal Republic of Germany (1986), and the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit “Heung-In” Medal, Republic of Korea (1986).
Chairman from 1984-1990
He accepted the appointment a few years after his resignation, due to ill health, as Malaysia’s third Prime Minister of Malaysia (1976 to 1981). After his Prime Ministership, Tun Hussein continued to contribute to welfare organizations. He was instrumental in the setting up of the Tun Hussein Onn Eye Hospital. He was also an advisor to Petronas, the country’s oil corporation. Tun Hussein Onn was looked upon as being very sincere in his struggle for racial unity and had a reputation for being firm against anyone who tried to create racial unrest in the county and it was due to this, that he was known as ‘Father of Unity’. Born in Johor Bahru, Johor on February 12, 1922 to Dato Onn Jaafar and Datin Halimah Hussein, Tun Hussein received his early education in Singapore and at the English College in Johor Bahru. Prior to entering politics, Tun Hussein studied law in London qualifying as a Barrister-at-Law and setting up legal practice in Malaysia. Tun Hussein died in May 1990 at the age of 68.
Past Directors-General of ISIS Malaysia Dato’ Seri Mohamed Jawhar Hassan was the second ISIS Director-General from 1st March 1997 until 8th January 2006. Director-General from 1984-1997 Tan Sri Dr. Noordin Sopiee was the first ISIS Director-General from 1st January 1984 until 28th February 1997.
Past Deputy Directors-General of ISIS Malaysia
Regional Economist at Kleinwort Benson Research (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. From 1990 – 1994, he was the Adviser of Economics at Bank Negara Malaysia. He holds a BSc (Economics) from Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, an M.A. (Development Economics) from the University of Leicester and a D.Phil. (Economics) from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Dr. Zainal’s vast experience and significant contribution in the field of Economics, both locally and internationally, had enabled him to serve the Government and the private sector in various capacities. He was a consultant of UNIDO/UNDP Malaysia and in the World Bank in charge of The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth. He was responsible in the preparation of the Industrial Master Plan of Malaysia, the Second, the Fourth and the Fifth Malaysia Plans. While at ISIS, he was a coordinator of the Knowledge-Based Economy Master Plan.
Prof Datuk Dr. Ismail bin Md. Salleh was ISIS Deputy Director-General from 1st January 1993 until 31st August 1994. Before this, he was an Assistant Director-General and had held the position of Head, Bureau of National Economic and Socio – Economic Policy Studies at ISIS Malaysia. Dr. Ismail graduated with PhD in Economics from University of IIlinois At Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He specialises in Fiscal Economics, Macro Economics, Project Evaluation and Industrial Economics, which had enabled him to hold a number of positions in the Government and in the private sector. He was a member of the National Economic Consultative Council, the National Economic Action Council (MTEN), Penang Economic Council and a Trustee of Yayasan Amanah Pembinaan Insan (YAPI), among others. He became the Chief Executive Officer of L & G Twintech Sdn. Bhd. – a private Higher Learning Institution.
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Tan Sri Dr. Noordin Sopiee was appointed Chairman and CEO of ISIS Malaysia in March 1997.
Tan Sri Datuk Zainal Abidin Sulong was the second Chairman of ISIS, a post he held from June 1990 till February 1997. Since then he has been a Special Advisor to ISIS. He is currently the Chairman of the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA).”
Tun Hussein bin Dato’ Onn was Chairman of ISIS from April 1984 till May 1990.
