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Anak anak daim zainuddin

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EDUCATION

  • Doctor of Philosophy [PhD], University Malaya, 2019.
  • Visiting Fellow, Cambridge University UK 2002-2003.
  • Visiting Scholar, Harvard Institute of International Development (Harvard University) 1991-1992.
  • Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley 1977-1979.
  • Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln’s Inn, London 1957-1959.
  • Secondary education at Sultan Abdul Hamid College, Kedah and St. Xavier’s Institution, Penang.
  • Primary education at Seberang Perak Malay School, Kedah.

CAREER

  • Present: Actively involved in developing the Malaysian agriculture sector through various farm visits and advising SMEs in the agriculture and food production sector
  • 7 January 2020: Harun Ar-Rasyid Lifetime Achievement Award, Islamic Excellence Awards
  • 16 November 2019: Honorary Doctor of Economics, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
  • 12 October 2019: Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, University Malaya for the thesis “The Creation and Implementation of the New Economic Policy: Success and Failure, 1970 – 2008” (“Penciptaan dan Pelaksanaan Dasar Ekonomi Baru: Kejayaan dan Kegagalan, 1970-2008”)
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    Daim Zainuddin: 1938 - 2024

    METEORIC RISE IN POLITICS

    DAIM ZAINUDDIN was finance minister from 1984 to 1991 and rejoined the Cabinet between 1998 and 2001, following the sacking of then finance minister Anwar Ibrahim, who is now prime minister.

    Daim’s handling of Malaysia’s purse strings came as the world underwent financial crises, but his political career started before that.

    In December 1980, then prime minister Hussein Onn appointed him as a senator, before he contested the Kuala Muda parliamentary seat in April 1982.

    Barely two years later, he was named finance minister by then prime minister Mahathir Mohamad.

    During his two ministerial stints, he was credited with steering Malaysia out of recessions

    LIFELONG SCHOLAR

    At the age of 81, Daim obtained a PhD from Universiti Malaya in 2019 after submitting his thesis about the implementation of Malaysia’s New Economic Policy and its effects between 1970 and 2008.

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    BOOK REVIEW | Daim Zainuddin has been — and remains — an influential Malaysian political and business figure. A former prominent politician within Umno, close confidant and principal economic adviser to Dr Mahathir Mohamad during his first term as prime minister, and generally recognised as the architect of major reforms that rescued Malaysia’s economy during the major financial crises of the Mahathir era, Daim has long been regarded as a gifted and innovative politician as well as an exemplary Malay success story.

    His biographer, Michael Backman, has been hailed as a leading interpreter of Asian political, economic and cultural affairs. One would therefore anticipate a detailed, robust and perhaps controversial biography (‘Daim Zainuddin: Malaysia’s Revolutionary and Troubleshooter’, River Books: 2018).

    Backman provides us with a general outline of Daim’s life and career. Born in 1938 into a large family in Alor Setar, Kedah, at his father’s insistence, and rather unusually for a Malay of that period, Daim received an English education. He initially worked as a teacher, but l

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