A Fellow member of ICDM, Dato’ Sri Idris Jala is the Chairman and Independent Non- Executive Director of Heineken Malaysia Berhad and is also presently the President and Chairman of PEMANDU Associates He is also a Non-Executive Co-Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director of Sunway Berhad (an ICDM corporate member) and sits on the board of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation.
He was the Former Managing Director of BFR Institute and CEO of PEMANDU, a unit in the Prime Minister’s Department, Malaysia, the organisation tasked with spearheading Malaysia’s transition towards high income status by 2020. He served as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for 6 years, and later as the Advisor to the Prime Minister on the National Transformation Programme.
Dato’ Sri is also a renowned transformation guru in turning around companies’ performance through his big fast results methodology and transformational strategies that are innovative, rigorous and relevant to today’s demands. He has continuously delivered sustainable social economic reforms which, in 2014, saw Bloomberg placing him among the top 10 most influential policy makers in the world.
He is also the founder and Executive Chairman of the Global Transformation Forum (GTF), the world’s singular platform for influential, global leaders to engage and share experiences and best practices on how to drive transformation. He is an Expert Resource Speaker at the Harvard Health Leaders’ Ministerial Forum and a Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Oxford Blavatnik School of Government and served on the Advisory panel for the World Economic Forum (WEF) on New Economic Growth and on the Advisory Panel of World Bank.
Dato’ Sri Idris is also former Managing Director/CEO at Malaysia Airlines (MAS) for 3 years where he was brought on board to turn around the airline which was in crisis brought about by a prolonged bout of losses from operational inefficiencies. Prior to MAS, he spent 23 years at Shell, rising up the ranks to hold senior positions including Vice President, Shell Retail International and Vice President Business Development Consultancy, based in UK. This included successful business turnarounds in Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
