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Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Wan Mohd Zahid Bin Mohd Noordin is currently the University Board of Director for Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI). He is also the Chairman of Kolej Teknologi dan Pengurusan Lanjutan Sdn Bhd, Management and Science University and FEC Cables (M) Sdn Bhd. He was formerly the Chairman of Berger International Ltd in Singapore and Deputy Chairman of International Bank Malaysia Berhad. Tan Sri Dato’ Dr. Wan Mohd Zahid started his career as a teacher, moving up to principal level and eventually held various positions in the Ministry of Education before his retirement as Director General of Education. Subsequent to his retirement, Tan Sri Dato’Dr. Wan Mohd Zahid was an advisor with special functions to the Minister of Education and also an advisor to Sekolah Bahasa Teikyo.
Professor Lee Sing Kong is the Vice President (Alumni and Advancement) at Nanyang Technological University. After an illustrious career in the civil service, Professor Lee joined NIE in 1991 and was in various positions of leadership. He assumed the directorship of NIE in 2006. Under his stewardship, NIE took a systematic review of teacher education programmes in partnership with MOE and its schools, using the revised National Curriculum as key guides. The resulting 21st-century teacher education model was launched in 2009 to develop teachers with the key values, skills and knowledge necessary to function in the 21st-century classroom. Building on his extensive knowledge and experience in education, Professor Lee was appointed as the Vice President (Education Strategies) from July 2014 till June 2016 to lead the development of NTU's strategies and innovations in curricular, teaching methods and assessment. He initiated a framework that provides the support for professors across NTU to proactively adopt Technology Enabled Learning (TEL) initiatives, with the aim of having 50% of the NTU courses to be incorporated with certain TEL components in them by 2020. Appointed as the Vice President (Alumni and Advancement) in August 2015, he is pivotal in the re-development of Alumni and Donor relationship in NTU.
Datuk Dr Amin bin Senin is the Deputy Director General of Education, Ministry of Education Malaysia. As an educational practitioner, Datuk Dr. Amin Senin has a vast experience in educational management involving all levels of education i.e., schools, district, state, and at ministerial level. He was previously the Director of Institut Aminuddin Baki, Ministry of Education Malaysia and Deputy Rector of Institute of Teacher Education Malaysia (IPGM), responsible for transforming the teacher training colleges into university. He has also held other leadership positions in the Ministry of Education Malaysia, such as Deputy Director in Curriculum Development Division and Deputy Director (Policy) of School Division and a member of Board of Directors in Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). Datuk Dr. Amin has a keen interest in educational management and leadership development. He has presented papers at various international and national conferences on Educational Leadership focusing on school leaders competency. Datuk Dr. Amin is also the president of South East Asia School Principals Forum and currently a representative of Malaysia in the Governing Board Member for Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid is the President of the Malaysian Association for Education (MAE) and Director of IAB Global (Inspiring Authentic Benevolence). He was the Deputy Vice Chancellor INTI-Laureate International Universities and Professor of Management, Education and the Social Sciences. Dr. Ibrahim was Director of the Regional Centre for Education Planning, United Arab Emirates, Professor of Management, Leadership and Policy Studies and the Founding Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University Tun Abdul Razak (UNITAR) and former Director of Institut Aminuddin Baki (IAB) – The National Institute of Educational Management and Leadership. He is distinguished Fellow Institute of Strategic and international Studies, Distinguished Associate of the Institute of Educational Leadership, Consultant, Centre for Civilizational Dialogue, University of Malaya and Senior Fellow, Universiti Islam Malaysia. For more than three decades, he has been the key figure in the Field of Educational Management and Leadership in Malaysia. He is the recipient of the National Educational Leadership Award, the highest Educational Leadership Award in Malaysia awarded only to a few individuals who have demonstrated distinguished and exemplary leadership across institutional, national and international contexts.
