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INTERVIEW
The Malaysian Surveyor
RECOGNITIONS
She had been recognised by the industry with various
awards. Her home state, Penang, acknowledges her
professional and social responsibility contributions,
and bestowed her the Bintang Cemerlang Negeri (BCN),
the Darjah Johan Negeri (DJN), and the Darjah Setia
Pangkuan Negeri (DSPN) which carries the title Dato’.
The RISM 57th President received her Chain of Office
from His Royal Highness Sultan of Selangor at the 56th
Annual Dinner on 20th May 2017. Here is an interview
with the President 100 days into her office commencing
from the 21st May 2017.
1. My thoughts for being elected the 57th RISM
President Session 2017/2018... I thank the
last General Council for placing its trust in me
and electing me to helm RISM for the Session
2017/2018. This is my 7th term in the General
Council and I believe my past experiences will be
useful for me to build further upon the building
blocks of the past presidents and steer RISM to
greater heights.
2. My thoughts for being the second lady President of
the institution ... I feel whatever ranking we are in the
Presidency, it’s just a number. The novelty appears
to be that I am a lady and Presidents of almost all
professional bodies are men! But we are now in
a digital disruption age, Industry 4.0, there really
should not be gender-biased in a top post or for that
matter being a surveyor.
The RISM 57th President
received her Chain of
Office from His Royal
Highness Sultan of
Selangor at the 56th
Annual Dinner on 20th
May 2017.
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Looking at the membership statistics, except for
the GLS Division, the other three Divisions have near
equal number of both gender. As for the student
membership, the proportion of ladies out-numbered
men, hence I do expect more lady presidents in the
future!
3. My plans and aspirations in this Session … In the
56th AGM on 19th May 2017, I had shared with our
members the four areas I am undertaking, namely:
a. Expansion of Professional Services
b. Skills and Knowledge Enhancement
c. Recognition and Branding, and
d. Outreach and Surveyors Social Responsibility.
On the 25th May 2017, at our 1st General Council
Meeting, I told the Councillors not to walk with me!
Instead, please run with me! A Session in office is
actually a short time. Now, 100 days into my term, I
like to report the following deliveries:
a. Firstly, Expansion of Professional Services,
looking into expanding our services to a wider
horizon and undertaking initiatives along services
such as Green Auditing and Value Determination
of Businesses and Intangible Assets; well, steps
are undertaken now to ink a Memorandum
of Agreement (MoA) with the World Trade
Institute (WTI) of University of Bern, Switzerland
to conduct accredited courses for Intangible
Assets. The Intangible Assets Committee which I
am chairing is also about to publish the Guidance
Notes on Intangible Assets Valuation.
b. The second area, that of Skills and Knowledge
Enhancement, already witnessed the setting up
of 2 centres under the recently-formed RISM
Academy, namely the Centre of Knowledge
Enhancement (C-KEn) and the Centre of
Competency Advancement (C-CAd). C-KEn is
now running activities of enhancing the current
competencies while C-CAd had also started
activities of up-scaling the current competencies.
c. Recognition and Branding, the third area,
involves recognition of RISM members as well
as industry players through RISM and related-
industry awards, as well as nominations of RISM
members for Federal and State awards.
For recognition of members, the General Council
had endorsed recommendations for 2 state
awards.