13th Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia (1955?2022)
Ali bin Hamsa
(29 August 1955 ? 21 April 2022) was a
Malaysian
civil servant who served as the 13th
Chief Secretary to the Government of Malaysia
from 24 June 2012 to 28 August 2018.
[1]
Education
[
edit
]
Ali graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the
University of Malaya
before furthering his studies at
Oklahoma State University
,
US
, where he obtained a master's degree in Economics in 1986, followed by a
PhD
in Environmental Sciences and Economics in 1997.
[2]
Career
[
edit
]
Ali joined the Administrative and Diplomatic Service as an Assistant Director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry on 5 January 1981. In 1986, he was made Senior Project Manager, Economy and Public Policy Management at the National Institute of Public Administration, where he co-authored two books, namely
Dasar-dasar Utama Kerajaan
(1997) and
Malaysia Kita
(1998).
[3]
After a short stint at the
Ministry of Transport
in 1992, Ali furthered his studies and obtained his PhD in 1997. Upon returning from the US, he began serving at the Economic Planning Unit,
Prime Minister's Department
(PMD). He consecutively held the positions of Director of Disbursement Division and Deputy Director-General of the National Transformation and Advancement Programme.
[4]
On 22 April 2009, Ali was appointed the Director-General of the
Public-Private Partnership
(PPP) Unit, PMD, a central agency created to spearhead PPP initiatives, namely privatisation projects, private finance initiatives, corridor developments, and facilitation funds. He was sworn in as the
Chief Secretary
to the
Government
on 23 June 2012, before
Prime Minister
Najib Razak
in
Parliament
.
[5]
As the Chief Secretary, Ali was the Chairman of the Malaysian Integrity Institute, Co-Chair of the Special Task Force to Facilitate Business, and Deputy Chairman of
Johor Corporation
. Ali was also a non-executive director of Bintulu Port Holdings Berhad, a member of the Penang Port Commission, and a member of the Board of Bumiputera Agenda Coordinating Unit.
[6]
In October 2017, Ali became the first Malaysian to receive an
honorary science doctorate
from the
B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology
in
Chennai
,
India
.
[7]
Death
[
edit
]
Ali died while receiving treatment at a hospital in
Dublin
, Ireland on 21 April 2022 at the age of 66.
[8]
He was buried at the
Precinct 20 Muslim Cemetery
in Putrajaya.
[9]
Honours
[
edit
]
Honours of Malaysia
[
edit
]
References
[
edit
]
External links
[
edit
]