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Dr. Mahani Zainal Abidin
Dr. Mahani Zainal Abidin was Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. She obtained a Ph.D (development economics) from the University of London in 1992. Her research interests are in the areas of industrial policy, international trade and regional groupings and economic structural transformation. In January 1998, Dr. Mahani was appointed a member of the Working Group for the National Economic Action Council, a body established by the Malaysian Government to formulate measures to initiate recovery the economic and financial crisis. Dr. Mahani was the Honorary Secretary of the Malaysian Economic Association. She is also Program Associate of the American Committee on Asian Economic Studies and Associate Research Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research. She was a Board Member of the Malaysia Employees Provident Fund (1998-2000). In April 2001, Dr. Mahani was appointed as the Head, Special Consultancy Team on Globalisation of the National Economic Action Council. Dr. Mahani was appointed as the Economic Adviser to the Bank Industri & Teknologi Malaysia Berhad from 2003 – 2005. She also served as Deputy Chairman of the National Accreditation Board from May 2003 until October 2007. In 2005, Dr. Mahani was appointed as the Deputy Director-General, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia. She was invited as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar to the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia in February 2008.
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