Accountant General	Deputy Accountant General (Corporate)
	YBhg Datuk Wan Selamah Wan Sulaiman	Rosini Abdul Samad
	President	Vice President
	Datuk Mohd. Nasir Ahmad	Abdul Rahim Abdul Hamid
Prof Datin Dr Hasnah Hj Haron	Dr. Kalsom Salleh	Prof. Dr. Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail	Associate Prof. Dr. Mohamat Sabri Hassan
Assoc. Prof Dr. Zulkarnain Muhamad Sori	Dato' Seri Ahmad Johan  Mohammad Raslan	Devanesan Evanson	Chan Feoi Chun, Francis
Josephine Phan	Ng Kim Tuck	Baharuddin Ahmad	Donald Joshua Jaganathan
Mohd Noh Jidin	Wong Weng Soon, Eugene	Johan Idris	Dato' N. K. Jasani
Mohammad Faiz Mohammad Azmi	Zahrah Abd Wahab Fenner	Dato' Liew Lee Leong, Raymond	Abraham Verghese
Heng Ji Keng	Lim Thiam Kee, Peter	Soh Siong Hoon, Sam	Subramaniam A V Sankar

Ahmad Zahirudin Rahim	Paul Chan	Simon Kua
	Rosli Abdullah

Datuk Wan Selamah Wan Sulaiman is the Accountant General (Corporate) in the Accountant General’s Department of Malaysia effective 29 November 2010. She was conferred the Panglima Jasa Negara (PJN) Award on 4th June 2011 in conjunction with the birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin.

She obtained her Master in Business Administration (Finance) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 1992. She is a member of MIA and also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Her career with the Government started in 1979 as Treasury Accountant in the Examination Syndicate Department of the Ministry of Education. In 1982, she served the Ministry of Defense before joining the Accountant General’s Department, where she has been since 1984.

She has held various positions in the Accountant General’s Department, including Deputy Director, Government Pensions Trust Fund; Director, Information Technology Services Division; and Director, Central Operations and Agency Service Division.

Rosini Abdul Samad is the Deputy Accountant General (Corporate) and the Accountant General’s nominee on the Council of MIA, effective 16 December 2010. Previously, she was the Deputy Accountant General (Operations).

She graduated in 1977 from Universiti Malaya with a degree in Economics, majoring in Accounting. She received a postgraduate Diploma in Accounting in the following year and in1994 Rosini received her Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Cardiff, United Kingdom and obtained a Master of Business Administration in 1995.

With over 30 years of work experience under her belt, Rosini started her career with the Government in 1978 as Treasury Accountant in the Accountant General Department, Investments and Loans Division. In 1980, she served as Treasury Accountant in the Selangor Waterworks Department in the Finance and Accounts Section.

Between 1981 and 1984, she served as the Senior Internal Auditor in Customs and Excise Department of Malaysia, for the Internal Audit Division. After that, for the next 5 years, she served as a Senior Accountant for the National Population and Family Development Board (NPFDB).

In 1989, she served the Ministry of Finance in the Housing Loans Division, as the Senior Treasury Accountant and in 1995 she served the Public Service Department in Pensions Division as the Chief Accountant. From 1998 to 2000, she continued her service in the same position, for the Ministry of Public Works.

In October 2000, Rosini was made the General Manager of Finance & Administration for Sarawak Hidro Sdn Bhd. She returned to serve the Accountant General’s Department, as Director of the Internal Audit Division on October 2006.

In the MIA Council, she is a member of the Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, Examination Committee and the Education Committee.

Datuk Mohd. Nasir Ahmad is the newly elected President of MIA.

Datuk Mohd. Nasir was re-appointed to the Council on 16 July 2011.

He is no newcomer to MIA. He was first appointed to the Council on 16 July 2009. He ended his term as MIA Council after completing his tenure as the President of ACCA Malaysia Advisory Committee on 28 February 2011. He is known to be very committed to the development of the accountancy profession in this country and has been an active member of MIA since 1985. He currently sits on a number of the Institute's strategic committees and represents the profession in various dialogues and meetings with relevant government ministries and regulatory agencies.

In the corporate world, Datuk Mohd Nasir was the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Berhad (PUNB). He retired from PUNB on 31 May 2011 after serving the organisation for 10 years.

Abdul Rahim Abdul Hamid was elected as MIA Vice President on 8 August 2011.

He was re-appointed to the Council on 16 July 2011 after completing his term on 15 July 2011.

He was the President of the Asean Federation of Accountants (AFA) and the Steering Committee Chairman of the 18th World Congress of Accountants 2010.

An accountant by training, Abdul Rahim is Chartered Accountant (CA) Malaysia and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) (United Kingdom). He has more than three decades of service in public practice. He started out in Coopers & Lybrand in 1971 and became the Managing Partner/Chief Executive of the firm in 1993. In 1998, Abdul Rahim assumed the position of Deputy Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers  and held it until he retired on 30 June 2004.

In the corporate arena, Abdul Rahim is currently an independent non-executive Director of Proton Holding Berhad as well as Chairman of the Proton's Board Audit Committee. Elsewhere, he is a Director of Petra Energy Berhad, MIDF Amanah Asset Management Berhad and he also represents the Ministry of Finance on the board of MIMOS Berhad and Malaysian Debt Venture Berhad.

Abdul Rahim contributes substantially in enhancing the human capital development through his involvements and participations in various competency enhancement activities involving students and academicians. Abdul Rahim is an Adjunct Professor in Accountancy at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and he is also involved in an advisory capacity at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).

Prof Datin Dr Hasnah Hj Haron is the Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She has served on the MIA Council from 1 Dec 2008 to 30 November 2010, and has been re-appointed on 1 Dec 2010.

As an accountant in academia, Dr. Hasnah's main research interest is in the field of audit and she has been awarded external grants from professional bodies and international universities to conduct research in this area. Her other research interests include financial reporting, ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance.

Dr. Hasnah has published both locally and internationally refereed journals and also in professional accountancy journals. As an endorsement of her scholarly effort, she was twice awarded the Best Paper Award from the Malaysian Accountancy Research Education Foundation (in 2005 and 2007) and has won the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Graduate Management Research, Universiti Utara Malaysia. Dr. Hasnah sits on the editorial advisory boards of the Malaysian Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Reporting & Accounting, and Journal of Organisational and Behavioural Research. Prior to that, she was also Chief Editor for the Asian Academy of Management Journal and Assistant Editor of the Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting & Finance.

Elsewhere, she is also a fellow member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia, and is currently the Vice President of the Asian Academy of Management.

Dr. Kalsom Salleh was re-appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011 after completing her term on 15 July 2011.

Dr. Kalsom is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Accountancy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia. She obtained her PhD (Accountancy) from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. She holds a Master in Business Administration from Ohio University, USA and a Bachelor degree in accounting from Universiti Teknologi MARA.

Besides auditing and public sector accounting, her research areas of interest include knowledge management (KM), intellectual capital, electronic government and corporate governance. She has published a few papers for journal articles and book chapters on KM in public sector organisations.

Dr. Kalsom has presented many of her research papers at national and international conferences. With her active participation in KM conferences, she was invited to become a conference committee member and paper reviewer for the European Conference on Knowledge Management 2009 (ECKM 2009) in Italy and ECKM 2010 in Portugal.

Prof. Dr. Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail was re-appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011 after completing her term on 15 July 2011.

A lecturer at Universiti Utara Malaysia, she obtained her PhD from Cardiff University, MBA from University Kebangsaan Malaysia and BSc (Accounting) from Western Kentucky University, USA.

She has over 20 years of teaching experience in financial accounting at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Besides teaching, Dr. Ku Nor Izah also held administrative posts and sat in various centres in UUM, the most significant being as Director of Centre for Professional and Continuing Education, University Utara Malaysia (UUM) in 2006. In 1999 and 2008, she was awarded the ''Excellence in Service Award'' by the Vice Chancellor of UUM.

She has obtained several research grants and published books and articles in local and overseas journals, a majority of which were in the area of financial reporting.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohamat Sabri was appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011.

He is an Associate Professor and Chair of School of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Associate Professor Dr. Zulkarnain Muhamad Sori is attached to the Department of Accounting and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). He has contributed significantly to the field of academia in last ten years of his service.

He started his academic career in 1999 after serving in local and international organisations for almost 5 years. He earned his PhD degree in Corporate Governance and Auditing from Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, United Kingdom in 2005. Prior to pursuing his PhD degree, Dr. Zulkarnain received his Master of Science in Accounting in 2000 and Bachelor of Accounting in 1995 from Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (now known as Universiti Putra Malaysia).

Dr. Zulkarnain is a member of Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) starting and a Certified Professional Trainer (MIM-CPT) with the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM). He is also the appointed Academic Advisor for Accounting Program in Universiti Industri Selangor (UNISEL).

Internationally, between 2006 and 2008, he has been appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Asian Accounting Finance and Business Research Unit, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK to undertake a joint research project on ‘Audit Committee Practices in Malaysia’.

Between 2006 and 2007, the Ministry of Finance appointed him as the Liaison Officer for collaboration efforts and activities between the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Dubai and the Ministry of Finance.

In the MIA Council, he is a member of the Examination Committee and the Financial Statements Review Committee.

Dato' Seri Ahmad Johan Mohammad Raslan the President of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) and is the Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia. He has over 25 years of working experience in audit and business advisory in Malaysia and the United Kingdom.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Economics and Accountancy from University of Hull, United Kingdom. He is the Chairman of the Financial Reporting Foundation (FRF) and also participates in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues and has assisted Malaysian regulators to implement its corporate governance framework.

Dato’ Seri Johan is a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority, a member of Working Group C (Corporate Governance and Shareholders’ Rights) of the Corporate Law Reform Committee, Chairman of CSR Malaysia, and a Board member of Perbadanan Putrajaya.

He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Dato’ Seri Johan is also a Director of the Kuala Lumpur Business Club and a Trustee of the Tun Suffian Foundation. He is also an Eisenhower Fellow.

Appointed to the MIA Council on 16 September 2007, he is the Chairman of the Examination Committee (EC) and member of the Executive Committee (EXCO) and the Nominating Committee (NC).

Devanesan Evanson was appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011.

He is the President of the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) Malaysia Advisory Committee. He was also a past President of the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia (2000/2002) and is currently a Governor of the Institute. Devanesan is a Director with Advisory Services of Ernst & Young. He is an accountant by profession and also holds a law degree from the University of London.

He was with Bursa Malaysia for 18 years where he has served as the Head, Group Internal Audit and Risk Management, Chief Regulatory Officer and Chief Market Operations Officer, amongst others.

Chan Feoi Chun or also known as Francis Chan is currently the Divisional President of CIMA Malaysia. In the corporate arena, Chan is the Chief Executive Officer of Swiss Garden International Vacation Club Bhd, since January 2006, rising up from the ranks of Chief Operating officer and General Manager.

He has 32 years of experience in the areas of financial management and business re-engineering, including international work exposure in the UK and Thailand. Presently he is an independent non-executive director of three listed companies on Bursa Malaysia.

In the MIA Council, he is a member of the Disciplinary Committee, Ethics Board and Professional Accountants in Business Committee.

Josephine Phan is President of CPA Australia (Malaysian Division) and the Malaysia Representative on the Council of CPA Australia. She is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Josephine has been a Senior Executive Director in PwC Malaysia since 2004, and leads the Firm's Systems and Process Assurance Group. Her Group provides assurance and advisory services to clients on their IT systems and financial processes. She has over 23 years experience in reviews of her clients’ IT systems and financial processes in various industries such as Banking, Insurance, Retail, Resort, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Gaming, Telecommunications, Oil and Gas, Energy, Media and Plantations.

Josephine holds a degree in Accounting and Computer Science from Monash University, Australia.

She is a past Vice President of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Malaysia Chapter, an international professional association that deals with IT Governance and Security. Josephine was appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011, and has been a member of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) since its formation in 2009.

Ng Kim Tuck is currently the Senior Audit Advisor to BDO Malaysia. He joined KPMG in 1974 and was seconded to the firm’s US office in 1979 to specialize in oil and gas. He was admitted as a partner of the firm in 1985.

He has been the partner-in-charge of KPMG Malaysia’s Audit Division, Finance as well as Risk Management and Ethics and Independence. He was also formerly the Chairman of KPMG Malaysia’s Audit and Accounting Committee. Kim Tuck retired from the firm in December 2010.

During his tenure with KPMG Malaysia, he specialized in automotive, manufacturing, trading, insurance, oil and gas and plantation audit. He was also an experienced investigating accountant on innumerable due diligence exercises and was the reporting accountant on numerous flotations / IPOs and Bonds / Rights Issues.

Kim Tuck is also a Council member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In the MIA, he is a member of the Investigation Committee.

Baharuddin Ahmad was appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011. He is the President of the Association of Public sector Accountants Malaysia (PERASAMA).

Donald Joshua was appointed to the Council of MIA Council on 16 July 2011.

He is the Assistant Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia and he is responsible for the Financial Conglomerates Supervision, Insurance and Takaful Supervision and Banking Supervision Departments. Prior to his appointment, Donald Joshua was the Director of the Finance Department. He previously served in several departments in the Bank including Insurance and Banking Supervision, Insurance Regulation, Financial Surveillance and Strategic Management. Donald graduated from University of Malaya. He also holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, United Kingdom.

Eugene Wong Weng Soon is the Executive Director, Corporate Finance & Investment (CFI), Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”). He was appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011.

As the ED of CFI, he is responsible for all matters pertaining to corporate finance and investments, which include issuances of equity and debt securities, disclosures on corporate transactions, take-overs and mergers, managed investment schemes and registration of prospectuses.

Eugene is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia & Fellow of CPA Australia. He has an Advance Diploma in Corporate Finance from The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and holds a B. Comm. from the University of Melbourne. Eugene has worked for a merchant bank, a stockbroking firm and in the audit and corporate finance divisions of an international accounting firm.

Johan Idris, a Partner in KPMG and was appointed as MIA Council member on 16 July 2011.

Johan heads both Audit practice, as well as the Energy and Natural Resources line of business and a committee member of the Audit and Accounting Committee at KPMG Malaysia. He was also the CSR partner of KPMG Malaysia.

He is a member of MICPA and also serves as Project Leader of Extractive Industries for the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board.

Johan’s vast industry experience spans over 20 years in Malaysia and USA. His expertise encompasses both audit and non-audit engagements, within the local and international context. He worked on various assignments including multinational companies (companies in the Fortune 500 list) as well as several public listed companies quoted in Bursa Malaysia.

Mohd Noh is the President of Persatuan Firma-Firma Akauntan Bertauliah Melayu Malaysia.

Mohd Noh was trained in Kassim Chan & Co. and served both in a government statutory body and later with Baharom - Hamdan before going into public practice under Mohd Noh & Co. in 1980. He is an insolvency partner of SKMN, a five partner firm which he initiated in 1992.

Mohd Noh is a member of MICPA and was on ACCA’s Malaysian Advisory Committee in 90’s. He studied accountancy in ITM Shah Alam and Newcastle Polytechnic and Huddersfield Polytechnic, both of England.

Mohd Noh was active in rugby and chamber of commerce and was the Treasurer of Malaysia Rugby Union and Treasurer of Malay Chamber of Commerce.

In 1987, Mohd Noh served in various committees of the Institute in Public Practice, Taxation and Insolvency committees. During that time he was also Chairman to the Small and Medium Practioners Committee and the then MIA Branches of Negeri Sembilan and Malacca.

Mohd Noh was appointed to MIA council on 1st December 2010. He serves as a member on the Disciplinary Appeal Board Committee, Taxation Committee and Financial Statement Review Committee.

Mohammad Faiz is Chairman of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB), an appointment by the Minister of Finance.

Faiz is PwC's Global Leader for Islamic Finance. He is also the financial services leader for PwC's SEAPEN Region, which comprises Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Faiz has over 25 years' experience in audit and business advisory services for financial institutions in the UK and Malaysia. His audit clients include banks, stockbroking firms, fund management firms and funds. He is a member of two committees within MIA: the Islamic Finance Committee (IFC) and the Public Practice Committee (PPC). He represents MASB as an observer in the Financial Reporting Standards Implementation Committee (FRSIC).

Faiz holds a BA (Hons) Law from the University of Durham in the UK, was called to the Bar at Lincolns Inn, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW). He is past-President of the Kuala Lumpur City Group of ICAEW.

Zahrah was appointed to the Council of MIA on 16 July 2011.

She is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (services) of Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM). As the DCEO (Services), Zahrah oversees the Corporate Resource Division, the Corporate Development & Policy Division and the Public Affairs Section.

Presently, she is also a member of the Approval and Implementation Committee of the Iskandar Region Development Authority (IRDA).

She holds a Bachelor in Accounting (Hons) degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. She began her career as an Advisor Accountant with the Royal Customs and Excise Department between August 1984 and April 1992 where she advised on matters relating to valuation and standard international practices of the open market. Between May 1992 and July 1995, Zahrah was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Principal Accountant where she was responsible for handling the financial accounts and auditing of Malaysian Embassies and High Commissions worldwide.

Dato' N.K. Jasani is the country Managing Partner of Grant Thornton Malaysia. He is a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), member of Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) and Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS). He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974. Between years 1970 to 1985, he gained experience with Grant Thornton in England and locally with Ernst & Young, Baharom-Hamdan/Arthur Young & Co. After becoming an Audit Partner in 1985, he has been with Grant Thornton Malaysia since then.

Dato' Jasani has been involved in professional services for more than 30 years, covering financial institutions, manufacturing, multinational companies and listed public companies. From there he gained vast knowledge and experience in the areas of auditing, consulting and investigation, corporate restructuring, privatisation, and tax planning.

Dato' Jasani led the establishment of the Malaysian chapter of the ICAEW in July 2000 and was the pro-term and the first Chairman for 4 years. During this period he briefly served as a representative of ICAEW in the MIA Council and in the 2010 AGM has now been elected to the Council. As a founding Chairman of the ICAEW's Malaysian chapter, he has substantially raised the stature, activities and education for ICAEW. Today, he remains actively involved as the ICAEW Past Chairman and Adviser.

He is the Vice President of the Malaysian Alliance of Corporate Directors (MACD). Dato' Jasani is the Secretary of the National Insurance Association of Malaysia (NIAM) since 1983. This Association of 36 insurance companies carries out activities for the growth and development of the Malaysian insurance industry. Dato' Jasani is also an Independent Non-Executive Director in Mycron Steel Berhad, a long standing member in the Rotary Club of Pudu and a Trustee of Tuanku Ja'afar Education Trust.

Dato' Raymond Liew is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Master in Business Administration from Henley Management College, United Kingdom. He is a Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK and member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA). During his 20 years in the UK, he has gained extensive work experience with professional firms and multinational companies in corporate advisory and corporate tax planning including tax audit and investigation.

Dato' Raymond Liew is the Managing Partner of Parker Randall Asia Pacific region and the Deputy President of Parker Randall International which is headquartered in London. He is responsible for the rapid growth of Parker Randall International predominantly within the Asia Pacific region of which Malaysia is the Regional Head Office.

With his extensive work knowledge, Dato' Raymond Liew is a regular writer of technical articles and a regular speaker at various seminars and workshops. In 2008 he was appointed to lead the panel of judges for the Top 50 Enterprise Awards Malaysia 2008 organised by the Young Entrepreneurs’ Association of Malaysia.

Dato' Raymond Liew is a Trustee of the Malaysian Accountancy Research & Education Foundation (MAREF) and a Council Member of the Chartered Taxation Institute of Malaysia (CTIM). He represents CTIM in tax dialogues and discussions with the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) and the Ministry of Finance on a regular basis. He is also part of a special working group known as DESIRE, which was specifically set up by the IRB to deal with operational issues affecting practitioners and SMEs.

Currently, he sits on the boards of a number of public listed companies as Chairman of Audit Committee and Senior Independent Director.

In the MIA Council, he is member of two internal committees: the Practice Review Committee (PRC) and the Public Practice Committee (PPC).

Abraham Verghese is a Chartered Accountant of MIA, member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) and fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) UK.

He has been with Ernst & Young/ Arthur Andersen/ Hanafiah Raslan & Mohamad for 29 years, specialising in auditing, financial consulting and corporate finance. He has extensive experience in the audit of private and public companies in various industries.

Presently he is member of both the Public Practice and Technical Committees of ACCA, and also its Malaysian Advisory Committee. Abraham is also member of the Accounting and Auditing Standards Committee of MICPA.

In the MIA Council, he is a member of the Investigation Committee.

Heng Ji Keng is the co-founder of Baker Tilly Monteiro Heng and Ferrier Hodgson MH.

Ji Keng started his career as a school teacher after graduating from the Malayan Teachers College, Johor Bahru in 1968. He went on to pursue a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree at University of Malaya and graduated in 1972. Under its Staff Training Scheme, he was awarded a scholarship by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia to undertake postgraduate studies in Australia.

In 1976, Ji Keng obtained a Master of Commerce degree from University of New South Wales and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co., Sydney. He commenced public practice in 1978.

Ji Keng is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia, Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (MAICSA), and Fellow of CPA Australia. He is also a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).

Ji Keng is an active member in the Disciplinary Board of CPA Australia and the Public Practice Committee and the Audit Manual Task Force of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA). Between 2007 and 2009, he was a Council Member of MAICSA. He is also a panel member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Advocates & Solicitors Disciplinary Board.

In the MIA Council, he is a member of the Audit & Risk Management Committee (ARMC) and the Public Practice Committee (PPC).

Peter Lim Thiam Kee is the Chairman of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) Malaysia Branch since 2001. He is also the Managing Partner of his firm, T K Lim & Associates.

He has been in public practice for more than 28 years. Previously, he was a senior staff in an international audit firm for 8 years.

Peter Lim is a familiar face to MIA as he was a Council Member between 2004 and 2008. Currently in the MIA Council, he is Chairman of the Tax Practice Committee (TPC), a sub-committee of the Public Practice Committee (PPC). He is also a member of three internal committees: the Practice Review Committee (PRC), the Taxation Committee (TC) and the Public Practice Committee (PPC).

He is an active contributor to the accounting profession. He is also a Council Member of three (3) other professional bodies: The Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) since 2002, the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia (CTIM) since 2006, and the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (MAICSA) since 2007.

Between 2006 and 2008 he was a member in the Small and Medium Practices Committee of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).

Sam is a practising chartered accountant under M/S Soh and Co and has been managing his own practice for more than 20 years.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. Sam's experience includes working in international firms of Chartered Accountants in Perth, Sydney & Singapore and covers auditing, accounting, taxation, receivership, company secretarial & management consultancy work.

Sam Soh was elected as the MIA Council member on September 2005. He has been actively involved in the continuous development of the Institute and the accounting profession through various committees and activities at MIA and elsewhere. He was among members of the Institute who were elected to form the first Council after the Institute's Annual General Meeting in 1987. He set up of the Institute's Southern Branch office in Johor Bahru in 1987. He continued serving the branch until 1989.

Sam was re- appointed as the then Johor branch chairperson in 2000 which he served until September 2005. During his tenure as chairperson, he established working relationships with various governmental bodies and authority agencies such as the Inland Revenue Board, Companies Commission of Malaysia, and The Royal Malaysian Custom as well as with the Professional Accountancy Bodies in Johor.

Sam is also a Council member of The Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) since 1983 and he is currently the Chairman of MICPA's Public Practice Committee. He is a regular speaker at Corporate Governance seminars organized by public companies and trade associations in conjunction with the Institute of Corporate Governance.

In MIA he is a member in the Executive Committee, Disciplinary Appeal Board Committee, Taxation Committee and Public Practice.

Subramaniam A V Sankar

Subramaniam is a member of The Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA).

Between 1969 and 1979 he was a Manager in Price Waterhouse and carried on as Financial Controller, IPPF until 1983. Currently he is partner at HALS & Associates.

In MIA, he is a member in the Audit & Risk Management Committee, Practice Review Committee and Public Practice Committee.

Ahmad Zahirudin Rahim is a Partner in Assurance , Services in Ernst & Young.

He was elected to the MIA Council on 25 September 2011.

He received his Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the University of Exeter and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

He has more than 17 years experience in providing various types of assurance and business advisory services. Among his portfolio of clients are companies in the oil and gas industry, manufacturing and trading concerns, government concession holders, property development and constructions, and investment holding companies.

Paul Chan is the Deputy President of the Malaysian Alliance of Corporate Directors. He was elected into the MIA Council on 25 September 2011.

Between 1999 and 2002, Paul Chan served as President to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Malaysia and from 2002 to 2003 he was also President of the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators (MAICSA).

With over 35 years of professional and business experience under his belt, Paul Chan has contributed significantly in the fields of accounting, auditing, financial, business and Corporate Advisory services, and assisting clients to manage their corporate and personal financial resources. He is also an Independent Non Executive Director several public listed companies and an active player in the corporate and professional scene in Malaysia.

In MIA he is member to the Disciplinary Committee (DC) and the Professional Accountants in Business Committee (PAIB).

Simon Kua is a Partner in Ernst & Young Malaysia since 1983. He was elected into the MIA Council on 25 September 2011.

He has over 28 years of local and international professional experience on issues concerning internal and external audit services, information systems assurance, enterprise risk management and corporate governance advice.

Simon Kua graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor degree in Economics. He did his post graduate studies in the University of Bath/ MIM where he received his MBA.

Simon Kua is a member of MICPA, a fellow of CPA Australia and is a member of the US Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

In MIA, Simon Kua is a member in the: Investigation Committee, Education Committee and Public Practice Committee.

Tuan Haji Rosli Abdullah was appointed as Malaysian Institute of Accountants's fourth Registrar on 1st December 2007.

Rosli Abdullah was the Senior General Manager - Finance at Putrajaya Holdings Sdn Bhd, which he joined in 1996 as General Manager for Corporate Services after having served KL International Airport Berhad as General Manager of Finance.

Rosli began his career at the Accountant General Department in Kelantan in 1976 and served as Chief Accountant of the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Education in 1981 and 1983 respectively.

He also served as the Director, Corporate Services at the Accountant General Department in 1994. He obtained his Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the University of Malaya in 1976 and his Master of Business Administration from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1989.