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Vol.52 No.2 2017

RISM 57th Session President

DATO’ Sr LAU WAI SEANG

Interview conducted by Sr Victor Huang Hua

Born in the state of Penang, she started her primary education in Singapore
and completed her secondary education at Technical Institute Ipoh, majoring in
Commerce. She has a Bachelor in Survey in Property Management from Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia and an MBA in Real Estate from the University of Western
Sydney, Australia.

CAREER PATH

She is a registered real estate valuer and
practiced for 35 years in the Valuation
and Property Services Department
(JPPH), under the Ministry of Finance
Malaysia; of which half of this period she
held the post of State Valuation Director
for the states of Sarawak, Kuala Lumpur, Penang and
Perak. Her last posting was at the Headquarters of
JPPH, helming the Valuation Services Division which
vets and approves major valuation cases throughout
Malaysia.
She is also a practicing Certified Intellectual Property
Valuer (CIPV), a joint certification by the Intellectual
Property Corporation of Malaysia and the University
of Bern, Switzerland.

PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENTS

Since the 1980s, she had been involved actively
with RISM. To date she has 6 Sessions serving in
the General Council, of which 1 Session each was
as the Chair of the Northern Branch and the Vice
President of the PS Division, and 2 Sessions each
as the Honorary Secretary General and the Deputy
President.

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