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CORPORATE PROFILE
Axiata Group Berhad | Annual Report 2016
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Notes:
None of the Directors have:
• Any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of Axiata.
• Any conflict of interest with Axiata.
• Any conviction for offences within the past five years (other than traffic offences).
• Any sanctions and/or penalties imposed on them by any regulatory bodies during the financial year ended 31 December 2016.
• Information on Directors' attendance at Board meetings held during the financial year is disclosed on page 79 of the Statement on Corporate Governance.
KENNETH SHEN
Non-Independent Non-Executive
Director
(Representative of Khazanah)
Membership of Board Committees:
• Board Audit Committee
• Board Nomination Committee
• Board Remuneration Committee
Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Arts Degree (magna cum laude) in East Asian Languages and
Civilisations (Japanese) and Economics from Harvard College, USA
• MBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, USA
• Completed studies at Keio University, Japan
Working Experience:
Kenneth joined Khazanah as Executive Director of Investments in 2011. He
has more than 25 years of global investment, corporate finance and mergers
and acquisitions experience gained in New York, Hong Kong, Qatar and
Malaysia. Prior to joining Khazanah, Kenneth was with Qatar Investment
Authority (QIA) from 2006 where he most recently was Advisor to the CEO
and a member of the Board of Directors of Qatar Holding LLC. In addition,
Kenneth had responsibility for QIA’s direct investments in public and private
companies as well as its investments in private equity, special situations and
venture capital funds. Prior to that, he was with Salomon Brothers Inc and
its successor companies from 1996 where his most recent role was Co-
Head, Corporate Finance at Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited. Prior to
Salomon Brothers, Kenneth was with Lehman Brothers Inc. from 1992 in
Lehman’s Merchant Banking and Principal Investments Groups in New York.
Directorships of Public Companies:
Axiata Group
Listed
• Nil
Non-listed
• Nil
Others
Listed
• Nil
Non-listed
• Yayasan Amir
Age Nationality
Gender
Date of
Appointment
Length of
Service
Date of Last
Re-election
52 American
Male 5 October 2011 5 years
28 May 2014
DR MUHAMAD CHATIB
BASRI
Independent Non-Executive Director
Membership of Board Committees:
• Nil
Qualifications:
• PhD in Economics and Master of Economic Development, Australian
National University, Australia
• Bachelor of Economics, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Working Experience:
Dr. Muhamad Chatib Basri, was Indonesia’s former Minister of Finance from
May 2013 to October 2014. Previously, he was the Chairman of Investment
Coordinating Board of Indonesia from June 2012 to October 2013. Prior to
that, from 2010 to 2012, he served as the Vice Chairman of the National
Economic Committee of the President of Indonesia. He is currently the
Chairman of Indonesia Infrastructure Finance, and also Chairman of the
Advisory Board of Mandiri Institute. Dr. Basri was a member of the Asia
Pacific Regional Advisory Group of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
From 2010 to 2012, he was a member of the High Level Trade Experts
Group, co-chaired by Jagdish Bhagwati and Peter Sutherland. In 2010, he
co-founded CReco Research Institute, a Jakarta based economic consulting
firm. Dr Basri has from 1995 until present lectures at the Department of
Economics, University Indonesia.
He has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the Asian Development
Bank (ADB), the USAID, AUSAID, OECD and UNCTAD. He is the author of a
number of papers in international academic journals and actively writes for
various leading newspapers and magazines in Indonesia.
Directorships of Public Companies:
Axiata Group
Listed
• Nil
Non-listed
• Nil
Others
Listed
• Nil
Non-listed
• Nil
Age Nationality
Gender
Date of
Appointment
Length of
Service
Date of Last
Re-election
51 Indonesian Male 25 February 2015 2 years
20 May 2015