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Vol.51 No.1 & 2 2016

Lady Surveyor:

YBhg. Dato’ Sr Lau Wai Seang

The interview is conducted by Sr Dr. Yasmin bt Mohd Adnan, a Committee member of PMVS
Division 2015/2016 and a Senior Lecturer of Department of Estate Management, Faculty of Built

Environment, University of Malaya.

Dato’ Sr Lau Wai Seang has been a member of RISM since 18th August 1982. Since
then, she has been actively contributing to RISM. She started her professional career
as a Valuation Officer with the Valuation and Property Services Department (JPPH1),
Ministry of Finance Malaysia on 10th April 1980. She graduated with a Bachelor
of Surveying (Property Management), UTM and possessed an MBA (Real Estate),
University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is a Registered Valuer, a Registered Estate
Agent, was certified by MyIPO/World Trade Institute, Switzerland as an Intellectual
Property Valuer and accredited by the International Association of Consultants,
Valuators and Analysts (IACVA), USA as a Business Valuer.

Q&A

Q. Since becoming an RISM member in
1982, what are the positions that you
have held?

A. Well Yasmin, there were lots of positions I had held
over the past 34 years as an RISM member. But I
would like to share only meaningful milestones. And
all these developments followed me as I served the
government for 35 years.

While I was serving as the Sarawak Federal Valuer2
in the mid-1980s, the State and Federal valuation
agencies did not enjoy cordial relationships. I
managed to improve this situation by being active
in the RISM Sarawak Branch activities. I gained their
friendship and trust as I was elected the Chair to their
PCVS3 Division Session 1990/1991 and was appointed
by Datuk Ambrose Foo, the then Sarawak RISM Chair
as well as the Sarawak State Director of Lands and
Mines, as the Auditor the following Session.

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