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Syed Azman Syed
AHMAD
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(Workshop Presenter)
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Hon. Syed Azman Syed Ahmad is a member of parliament from
Terengganu state representing the Islamic Party of
Malaysia (PAS). He handles the international affairs of
the party and is active in many regional and international
programs. Before serving as a MP, he was a lecturer at
Malaya
University.
Hon. Ahmad completed his PhD at Birmingham University in
the Department of Political Education in the
United
States.
Hon. Ahmad was a participant in the first NDI-CALD
regional political party workshop in January 2002.
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Steven GAN
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(Workshop Chairperson)
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After graduating with a degree in economics at an
Australian university, Mr. Gan spent four years as a
freelance journalist in Hong Kong. He traveled
extensively around Asia and covered the first Gulf War
from Baghdad. On returning to Malaysia in 1994, he joined
The Sun as a special issues editor. He wrote about the
deaths of 59 inmates at the Semenyih immigration detention
camp, but when The Sun refused to publish the story, he
gave the information to human rights activist Irene
Fernandez (Ms. Fernandez was subsequently charged with
spreading "false news"). In 1996, Mr. Gan was adopted by
Amnesty International as a “prisoner of conscience” after
he was arrested at the Asia-Pacific Conference on East
Timor (Apcet II). Soon after, he joined The Nation in
Bangkok and was one of the newspaper's editors for two
years before co-founding Malaysiakini in Malaysia in
1999. Mr. Gan won the “International Press Freedom Award”
(2000) from the New York-based Committee to Protect
Journalists, and Malaysiakini won the Brussels-based
“International Press Institute's Media Pioneer Award”
(2001). Mr. Gan was selected as one of Business Week's
“Stars of Asia” (2001) and Asiaweek's “50 most powerful
communicators” (2000).
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Tunku Abdul AZIZ IBRAHIM
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(Workshop Chair)
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Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim has held senior management
positions in large private and public sector organizations
in
Malaysia,
Hong Kong, and the UK. He began his business career with
the Guthrie Corporation Ltd., after tertiary education in
England and Australia. He then moved to the Central Bank
of Malaysia as an advisor. Tunku Aziz returned to the
private sector, joining Dunlop Malaysian Industries before
being appointed a group director of Sime Darby Limited.
He left Malaysia in 1985 to take up a directorship at the
Commonwealth Secretariat in London, returning to Malaysia,
on retirement, in 1992. Upon return, Tunku Aziz founded,
with the support of like-minded individuals, the Malaysian
Chapter of Transparency International, the global
coalition against corruption, known locally as The Kuala
Lumpur Society for Transparency & Integrity, of which he
is the president. In October 1997 he was elected to the
international board of Transparency International and in
March the following year, he became vice-chairman of the
Board of Directors of Transparency International. He was
re-elected vice-chairman in October 1999 but relinquished
that position in October 2002. He has since 1995 devoted
the whole of his time to Transparency International on a
voluntary basis and has written and spoken widely on
corruption and integrity issues both domestically and
internationally.
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Tunku Aziz is a member of the World Bank High Level
Advisory Group on Anti-Corruption in the East Asia and
Pacific Region, and a member of the Advisory Board of
Global Public Policy Networks, a project of “Visioning the
UN,” an initiative of the Secretary-General of the United
Nations and the United Nations Foundation. He also serves
as a member of the Asian Pacific Advisory Panel on Good
Urban Governance, and is a member of the Board of the
International Institute of Public Ethics. He was a member
of the UNDP Advisory Panel for the Human Development
Report 2002. He is on the Global Advisory Council of Caux
Roundtable, a US-based business organization promoting,
among other things, principles of good governance. Tunku
Aziz was a participant in and chairperson of the first
NDI-CALD regional political party workshop in January
2002.
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Khalid JAAFAR
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Mr. Khalid Jaafar is currently the executive director of
the Institute for Policy Research (IKD) in Kuala Lumpur.
Mr. Khalid is also a member of the Supreme Council of the
National Justice Party (Keadilan) and editor of its
newspaper. From 1988 to 1998, Mr. Jaafar served as press
secretary to Anwar Ibrahim in his capacities as Minister
of Education, Minister of Finance, and later Deputy Prime
Minister. Mr. Jaafar earned his degree in mass
communication from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and
worked as journalist for eight years. Mr. Jaafar was a
participant in the first NDI-CALD regional political party
workshop in January 2002.
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Mohd. Hatta
Md.
RAMLI
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Dr. Mohd. Hatta Md. Ramli is currently the political
secretary to the parliamentary leader of the opposition
and deputy director of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS)
Research Center. He is also a PAS Central Working
Committee member and deputy chairperson of the
International and Foreign Affairs Bureau for the party.
In addition, he serves as chairperson for the party’s
Housing and Squatters Affairs Bureau and as secretary for
the International Humanitarian Fund. Dr. Hatta was a
medical officer at the Ministry of Health from 1982 to
1994 and a lecturer at the medical school at University K.
Malaysia from 1994 to 1998. Dr. Hatta served on the
humanitarian missions to
Iraq,
Pakistan/Afghanistan, and Jordan/Syria. He was also a
part of the International Visitors Program sponsored by
the United States’ State Department in 2001. He received
his Doctor of Medicine in Malaysia and his Master’s Degree
(MSc) in public health in
Singapore.
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Vijayaratnam S. SEEVARATNAM
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(Workshop Chairperson)
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Senator Vijayaratnam S. Seevaratnam is vice president of
the Gerakan Party and chair of the party’s International
Affairs Bureau. He is a Doctor of Medicine and runs a
family practice in Malaysia. Senator Seevaratnam is a
member of the National Economic Consultative Council, a
fellow of the Royal Society of Health in London, and an
honorary fellow of the Indian College of General
Practitioners in New Delhi. Senator Seevaratnam was a
participant in the first NDI-CALD regional political party
workshop in January 2002.
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Teresa Kok Suh SIM
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Hon. Teresa Kok Suh Sim is a member of parliament
representing the Democratic Action Party (DAP). She is
also the international secretary of the DAP and an elected
member of the party’s Central Executive Committee.
Previously, she worked as political secretary to Mr. Lim
Kit Siang, the former Opposition Leader in the Malaysian
parliament from 1990 to 1995. Hon. Sim also served as the
coordinator for ASEAN with the International Political
Leaders Network Promoting Democracy in Burma (PD-Burma)
for two years. She graduated from the School of
Communication at the University of Science Malaysia (USM),
and she received her Master’s of Philosophy in political
science at the
University
of
Malaya
(UM) in Malaysia. Hon. Sim was a participant in the first
NDI-CALD regional political party workshop in January
2002.
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Shamsul Anwar SULAIMAN
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Dr. Shamsul Anwar Sulaiman is an executive committee
member of the United Malay National Organization (UMNO)
Youth and chair of UMNO Youth’s International Affairs
Bureau. An obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr. Sulaiman
runs a family clinic and is a member of the Malaysia
Medical Council and Malaysia Medical Association. He is
also a director of Felda Rubber Industries, Ltd. Dr.
Sulaiman has participated in several international
missions and was involved in the establishment of
emergency medical mission teams for Kosovo and
Afghanistan
in partnership with UNHCR, UNESCO, WHO, and the World Food
Program. He is the coordinator of PEACE Malaysia, a
humanitarian and medical relief program. Dr. Sulaiman
received his Medical Degree at the
University
of Leuven in Belgium. Dr. Sulaiman was a participant in
the first NDI-CALD regional political party workshop in
January 2002.
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