{"id":9149,"date":"2013-10-28T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9149"},"modified":"2015-05-21T21:54:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T21:54:50","slug":"hon-phd-for-leading-economist-sulaiman-mahboob-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/october-2013\/hon-phd-for-leading-economist-sulaiman-mahboob-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon PhD For Leading Economist Sulaiman Mahboob"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2013%2Foctober-2013%2Fhon-phd-for-leading-economist-sulaiman-mahboob-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" 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class=\"createdate\">MONDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2013 11:32<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/TanSriSulaiman-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Centre for Corporate Communications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 28 Oct 2013 \u2013\u00a0One of the country\u2019s leading economists, Tan\u00a0Sri\u00a0Dr Sulaiman\u00a0Mahboob has been\u00a0awarded\u00a0an honorary\u00a0degree\u00a0of Doctor of Philosophy (Business Management)\u00a0at\u00a0the 41st\u00a0Convocation\u00a0of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sulaiman,\u00a065,\u00a0who has retired from\u00a0government\u00a0service,\u00a0was appointed\u00a0non-executive\u00a0Chairman of the\u00a0Malaysian Investment Development Authority(MIDA).\u00a0He is also Chairman of Jambatan Kedua Sdn\u00a0Bhd\u00a0(JKSB), the second Penang bridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his citation, Deputy\u00a0Vice-Chancellor\u00a0(Academic and International Affairs)\u00a0Prof Datuk Dr\u00a0Noor\u00a0Azlan\u00a0Ghazali\u00a0said the former civil servant had made a major contribution to\u00a0the National Economic\u00a0Action Council\u00a0(NEAC)\u00a0in efforts to\u00a0overcome the 1997 Asian economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Sulaiman was\u00a0appointed Head of the NEAC Secretariat\u00a0in 1998 for his expertise and\u00a0skills\u00a0as well as\u00a0his\u00a0extensive\u00a0experience in economic management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He later\u00a0moved to the\u00a0Ministry of Domestic Trade\u00a0and Consumer Affairs\u00a0as Secretary General in 2001\u00a0and in 2006\u00a0was appointed as Director General of\u00a0the Economic Planning Unit until his retirement\u00a0in June\u00a02009.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his retirement,\u00a0Sulaiman\u00a0continued\u00a0to serve\u00a0in\u00a0a number of agencies,\u00a0including\u00a0MIDA and several public universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He\u00a0also\u00a0held the position of Executive Director at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER), an independent economic policy\u00a0think-tank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sulaiman\u00a0in his response said the process of economic development and\u00a0management\u00a0should\u00a0also\u00a0ensure\u00a0that the quality of\u00a0the environment is\u00a0not compromised to ensure long-term sustainable economic and social\u00a0growth.<\/p>\n<p>He reasoned\u00a0that\u00a0economic\u00a0growth which is not\u00a0sensitive to\u00a0environmental\u00a0issues \u2013 is not real growth as economic\u00a0growth\u00a0should be enjoyed by all through a more even distribution\u00a0of benefits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He expressed confidence that policy-makers had been successful in their economic plans through better income distribution.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2013\/TanSriSulaiman-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2013 11:32 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Centre for Corporate Communications BANGI, 28 Oct 2013 \u2013\u00a0One of<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2013\/october-2013\/hon-phd-for-leading-economist-sulaiman-mahboob-2\/\">Read 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