TAN SRI DATO’ (DR) RAMON NAVARATNAM

Group Corporate Adviser Sunway Group


ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Tan Sri Ramon Navaratnam was educated at the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur and at the University of Malaya in Singapore where he obtained B.A.(Hons) in Econs. He obtained his Dip. In Public Administration from the Royal Institute of Public Administration in London in 1963 and then his M.P.A. (Econs) from Harvard (USA) in 1969.

He obtained an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Oxford Brookes University (UK) in 2000.


CAREER
He joined the Malaysian Civil Service in 1959 and held several posts in his long career of 27 years in the Malaysian Treasury where he became Deputy Secretary - General of the Treasury. He was promoted as the Secretary - General of the Ministry of Transport in 1986. He served as Alternate Executive Director of the World Bank in Washington between 1970 - 1972.

After retirement from Government in 1989 and he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Bank Buruh from 1989-1994.


CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Tan Sri is now the Corporate Adviser of the Sunway Group, Deputy Chairman of Sunway College, Director of Monash University, Director of the Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) and Non-Independent Executive Director of Sunway Construction Bhd.


OTHER POSITIONS
Tan Sri has been Vice Chairman of the Malaysian Business Council, a member of the Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), Director of the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) and member of the National Economic Consultative Council (MAPEN II). He is also a member of the National Unity Advisory Panel of the Ministry of National Unity and Social Development. He was Vice President of the Malaysian Association of Private Colleges (MAPCO), Vice President of the Malaysian Economic Association and the Vice President of the Harvard Club.

He was a member of the National Economic Action Council (NEAC) Education Brains Trust, and now a member of the NEAC Globalisation Committee and Member of the NEAC’s Public-Private Sector Consultative Committee (Nov 02).

He is presently a member of the Court and Council of the Malaysian Institute of Management, Deputy President of the Institute of Management Consultants. He was appointed as a Member of the Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) in April 2002 and again in April 2004. Tan Sri was elected as the President of Transparency International Malaysia in March 2006.

Tan Sri Navaratnam’s charity work extends to serving on the Board of the National Kidney Foundation, the National Liver Foundation and the Malaysian Community Education Foundation.