IDEAS Team

Board of Directors

YAM Tunku Zain Al-‘Abidin ibni Tuanku Muhriz

Founding President

Wan Mohd Firdaus Wan Mohd Fuaad

Founding Director

Tan Sri Datuk Dr Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria

Board Director

Dato’ Dr R. Thillainathan

Board Director

Our Team

Aira Azhari

Chief Executive Officer

Mazrina Arifin

Director, Finance

Dr Stewart Nixon

Director, Research

Alissa Marianne Rode

Senior Manager, Research

Hartini Jaapar

Senior Manager, Operations (Human Resources, Administration and Project Management)

Amir Ridzuan Jamaludin

Manager, Programme Secretariat

Ahmad Bashier

Manager, Finance

Amalina Annuar

Manager, Research

Nur Afiqah M. Zulkifli

Manager, Research

Nor Nazirah Mohamed

Manager, Research

Syazwan Zainal

Assistant Manager, Research

Sharmila Suntherasegarun

Assistant Manager, Research

Ryan Panicker

Manager, Advocacy and Events (Communications)

Durrah Sharifah Ahmad Azlan

Senior Executive, Research

Nischal Ranjinath Muniandy

Senior Executive, Research

Nursabrina Binti Mohd Firdaus Aloysius

Senior Executive, Research

Amelia Ramli

Senior Administrator

Norhayati Murni Misran

Senior Executive, Advocacy and Events (Design and Branding)

Faiz Zaidi

Senior Executive, Programme Secretariat

Muhamad Zuhdi Farhan Suhaimi

Senior Executive, Advocacy and Events (Events and Stakeholder Relations)

Aza Jemima Ahmad

Executive, Advocacy and Events (Communications)

Gajaletchumy Saravanan

Executive, Finance

Wan Adam Bin Wan Amin

Executive, Advocacy and Events

Priya Kaur Sachdev

Executive, Research

Nimitraa Youganesparan

Executive, Research

Mohd Safrizal bin Sudin

Driver

Founders

YAM Tunku Zain Al-‘Abidin ibni Tuanku Muhriz

Founding President

Wan Mohd Firdaus Wan Mohd Fuaad

Founding Director

YB Datuk Wan Saiful Wan Jan

Founder

Senior Fellows

Assoc Prof Dr Renato Lima de Oliveira

Energy

Dr Lee Hwok Aun

Development Economics

Dr. Evelyn S. Devadason

Trade

Professor Niaz Asadullah

Social Policies

We act as an intellectual centre, creating space for cross-partisan, principles-centric, and results-oriented dialogue