Tun Musa Hitam
Chairman
Independent Non-Executive Director,
75, MalaysianTun Musa Hitam was appointed
to the Board of UMLand on 26 January 2006. He is also
the Chairman of the
Executive Committee of UMLand.
Before becoming Malaysia's fifth Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs from 1981 to 1986,
Tun Musa Hitam held a number of key government posts,
including Chairman of Federal Land Development Authority
(FELDA), Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry, Minister of
Primary Industries and Minister of Education. Between 1990 and
1991, he was Malaysia's Special Envoy to the United Nations
and from 1995 to 2002 the Prime Minister's Special Envoy to
the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group. He was leader of
the Malaysia delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights
from 1993 to 1998 and Chairman of the 52nd Session of the
Commission in 1995.
Tun
Musa Hitam received his
Bachelor of Arts Degree from
the University of Malaya and
Masters Degree in
International Relations from
the University of Sussex,
United Kindom. He also holds
Honourary Doctorates from
the University of Sussex,
University Malaysia Sabah
and University of Malaya. He
was a Fellow at the Centre
of International Affairs,
Harvard University, United
States of America and is
currently a Fellow of the
Malaysian Institute of
Management and a member of the
Advisory Board of the
Malaysian Journal of
Diplomacy and Foreign
Relations.
