People and Leadership
Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar
Chairman, Bursa Malaysia
Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar is currently the Chairman of Bursa Malaysia Berhad, nature conservation organisation WWF-Malaysia and the Government founded sustainable development advocate MySDG Foundation. He has successfully led as CEO three major organisations in infrastructure development (UEM Group 2001 - 2004), telecommunications (Telekom Malaysia 2004 - 2008) and financial services (Maybank 2008 - 2013). He served as Group Chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (2016 - 2018) following completion of his term as a Senator and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of Economic Planning from June 2013 to June 2016. In championing Islamic Finance and Sustainability, Tan Sri Abdul Wahid also currently serves as the Professor of Practice at INCEIF University and as the Sultan bin Abdulaziz Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, UK.